Asteroid use

Listen to yourselves. Anyone capable of building a colony independant
of any government isn't going to care about treaties. What is anyone
going to do?

If your in a position to threaten the destruction of large cities,
which any independant power in space can do, everyone will continue to
turn a blind eye to the legalities.

If you can build a launch system at $1 kg you could easily start
building infrastructure in space in secret until you were very close
to being self sufficient.

This is probably why the treaty was worded in such a way to begin
with, to stop an existing countries from trying to dominant the
planet.

Bill

--- In spacesettlers@egroups.com, "Darren Brown" wrote:
> Robert,
>
> The problem with the treaty is that nobody has any real interest in
> enforcing it at the moment, a case in point is that a there are a
> number of people who have small chips of lunar rock from the Apollo
> program, technically a breach of the treaty. Of course nobody
really
> is worried about these small and really insignificant breaches but I
> think that if you started to use lunar rock to start building
> yourself a habitat then you may find more opposition. Having the UN
> agree to change the current document is a rather long shot, unless
> you can manage to get a couple of major world powers behind you.
> There is of course another way, all you need to do is set-up house
on