making money on asteroids

And when does the Class A+ (Armed incursion with disappeared people)
come in? Of course, that will never happen, it would be like insinuating
that a super-power nuclear-capable country would literally invade a
smaller, resource-rich (oil?) less developped country under false public
reasons.

Say, people where there first, before their people and the flag... flew
away because of solar wind?

But again, I'm wrong, this won't happen, it's against human nature
itself...

You are in space; (lots of room) try to enforce laws there. Whatever law
is in place is going to be much more a principle than a strict rule.
Unless someone/something is willing to spend the resources to police it.
Hell, they can't even police my own street 24/7 against crime, you think
they will police space?

Please, let's be realistic here - there are two types of people, those
with morals and those without. Those without, usually happen to be our
leaders. Presidents, Prime Ministers, Bosses (work harder, more hours,
less pay, more money for me...) and even sometimes family members.

You think anyone follows the quiet phisolopher? Yes, it has happened,
but then they put him on a cross to die to show people what happens when
you are too good.

Your only option is to have a police-person accompany each and every
ship that goes out; otherwise, they aren't going to rush into a
situation with flashing red / blue lights with a warp-8 capable vessel
with torpedoes locked...

This is human nature we are talking about, not mother theresa nor ghandi

Karell Ste-Marie
C.I.O. - BrainBank Inc.
From: Ed Minchau [mailto:spider_boris@...]
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 12:08 PM
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [spacesettlers] Re: making money on asteroids

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Bill" wrote:

>
> What happens if two different registries grant rights to the same
> portion of luner area to two different people. This is exactly what
> caused the American-Mexican war in 1948. The U.S was deeding
> properties to settlers that the Mexican government had deeded to
> different settlers years earlier, and they both showed up at the
same
> time with guns blazing.
>
> Furthermore, how are property rights going to be enforced.

> assuming that a person has dropped a teleoperated
> system on an asteroid and is mining, and my system drops in half a
> year later and the first thing it does is turn your system off. I
know
> have possession of the asteroid, but does the 9/10 ths rule apply
now?

That's the other 1/10 of the law.

Obviously, if company X, which started mining some asteroid, cannot
enforce its class B claim due to the actions of your robots, your
class B claim would supersede theirs. Of course, they could send
people and establish a class A claim, which trumps any class B
(robotic) claim.

Ed