Re: Space law

--- Aleta Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I suspect
> that most of this is 
> just blowing hot air until we start having real
> stuff being done around 
> Earth and cislunar space, and as I said over in
> Rand's web log, "You and 
> what fleet of space ships?"

Agreed.

> Rapid, flexible, routine
> access to LEO will 
> dictate the laws. Which is why the Chinese make me
> nervous.

And - for the same class of reason, but with opposite
data values - why I class the Chinese with the "Lunar
Embassy" in terms of long range legal impact.  (Yes,
they do have a lot of resources potentially available.
And they do have flying hardware.  Doesn't mean they
aren't announcing vaporware too.)