making money on asteroids

Ed,

Take out the movie "Moon 44"; you will see how human nature can work in
space. You can also see what measures companies that mine in space have
to take in order to even protect a moon-sized human (on site) controlled
operation (involving very few people and mostly robots).

You will see that some companies are forced to hire very bad people to
just protect an installation.

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