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>From OTA@SU-AI Mon Oct  5 04:29:44 1981

SPACE Digest                                      Volume 2 : Issue 5

Today's Topics:
		       Re: What should we pay for ?
		Conservation and mining rights on the moon
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Date:  4 Oct 1981 (Sunday) 1446-EDT
From: DREIFU at WHARTON-10 (Henry Dreifus)
Subject: Re: What should we pay for ?
To:   pourne at MIT-MC, space at MIT-MC

Jerry,

For once we agree. That is unusual.  There are a few things I would
like to mention.

We should spend more money/effort on:
  
  o Basic Research   --  Rocket technology, re-entry technology (I
                         seriously don't believe bathroom tiles are the
                         answer), course/navigation technology, 
                         fabrication and industrial technology, and
                         so forth.

  o Long range space research.  X-Ray orbital studies and the like.

  o Psyiological research, understanding more in the effects of 
                         extended space, research into true artifical
                         gravity.  I forsee in my lifetime a long
                         space mission.

Hank

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Date: 4 October 1981 18:53-EDT
From: Landon M. Dyer <ZEMON at MIT-MC>
Subject:  Conservation and mining rights on the moon
To: SPACE-ENTHUSIASTS at MIT-MC


	Just what will rabid enviromentalists and lawyers think of
strip-mines on the moon?  All that precious polar water-ice [if there
is any] being gobbled up by a huge corporation (the US govt.) for
fuel.  Gee, isn't it an irreplacable natural resouce?

	More to the point; are there any UN rulings governing the
claiming or mining of substances in space?  Are you allowed to
mine for things with (/real/ clean) nuclear bombs, or do you have
to ship up more mundane heavy mining equipment?

	Also, who has the rights to anything discovered?  (I would
suspect that the moon's surface can be treated (in a legal sense) much
in the same way that the ocean floor is currently being handled.
Can anyone verify or correct me on this?)

			-Landon-

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