>November 25, 2015 – President Obama signed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (H.R. 2262) into law.
>This law recognizes the right of U.S. citizens to own asteroid resources they obtain and encourages the commercial exploration and utilization of resources from asteroids.
http://www.planetaryresources.com/2015/11/president-obama-signs-bill-recognizing-asteroid-resource-property-rights-into-law/
This is one of the most important bills ever passed that has to do with space exploration. THOUGHTS?
>We mining asteroids now
>tfw space jews aren't just a meme
cool
now we just need a space elevator
Wow the government signed a bill that says I can keep my shit.
Gee willikers that's awesome!
The moon war is enevitable. And yes i know 'for the moment' it's off limits.
can I reinterpret this law to OWN my own asteroid?
SPACE MOTHERBASE WHEN
>>56757544
The free market always finds a way
>>56757648
>mormons arent a meme anymore
>>56757544
How nice of Obama to let Elon Musk keep his own property. This is just a precursor to taxing whatever endeavor they first launch to try and gather wealth in such a way.
>>56757544
Cool, too bad it costs unmanageable amounts of money to get into space so the only people that will be able to control these asteroid resources will be the elite, which already control all the resources on Earth anyway.
So nothing changes.
We're building a space station in the hollowed out asteroid right?
>>56757894
How is coal and steel taxed? Sure they sell them for money and thjey can tax taht but what if you dont need to sell your space metals?
When are we going to realize that this isn't just a moon? Look at the dust revealing alien runes underneath the surface.
This is a giant habitat for the aliens that control our world!
>>56758058
>>56757544
i thought that there was a treaty that said that no one can own property outside of the planet, and that the solar system belonged to the people of the earth?
>>56758209
Since when did we start caring about treaties? Nigga this is america
Well then, I guess some people are not gonna be happy
>>56758209
that's for nations, not for individuals
>>56757544
>inb4 the EPA issues outerspace carbon emission laws pricing American companies out of asteroid mining
>>56757673
>my shit
How is an asteroid yours? This gives you a legal framework upon which to make a claim of ownership. Before now, you could claim ownership but it would have no legal recognition, meaning you'd have no legal recourse is some stole 'your' asteroid.
>>56757894
>Elon Musk
>asteroid mining
Wrong company dude.
>>56757894
>Implying Elon Meme will ever build reliable rockets
>>56757659
we dont need a space elevator to mine asteroids.
Meanwhile
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/11/18/scientists-caught-a-new-planet-forming-for-the-first-time-ever/?wprss=rss_health-science
>>56758432
>own asteroid
>asteroid is on a collision course with earth
>expected to hit USA somewhere
>charged with mass murder and sentenced to death
>>56758721
Are you implying we can haul hundreds of tons of mining equipment into space on rockets?
>>56757544
> gutted nasa
> signs this
How the fuck this Gunna work?
Nearly everything to do with mineral processing works using gravity
Let's waste more money.
>>56758977
>increasing NASA's budget is gutting NASA
>>56758778
With the type of shit we get away with, I could see this happening.
There's so many things we began that we aren't good at anymore, and space exploration will be one of them. People will look at the failure that is NASA one day and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
>>56759033
smashing them into mars?
>>56759311
Now that sounds like a good idea
Over the years Mars will build mass to a size allowing a stable atmosphere
>>56758846
Once spacex or another company manages to build a rocket that's fully or near-fully reusable, launch costs will plummet massively.
If this technological hurdle is passed, space travel will be only a few times more expensive per kilogram than air travel. At that point, the cost of sending mining equipment into space will be easily justified by the potential profits.
>>56757544
Space news is literally the only thing that gives me hope anymore.
>>56758627
>go to another country
>buy or souvenir something
>it's yours
>go to space
>buy or souvenir something
>it's not yours it's your governments because they can somehow claim ownership of things outside their borders.
STATIST LOGIC
>>56758846
you dont really need much to mine asteroids.
most of it will get sent down towards earth any ways so all you need is a make shift shield to protect any heat sensitive ores.
>Nigger steals your souvenir, cops say they can't do anything about it because there is no law against it
This is what lolbertarians really believe.
>>56758627
How is it the governments?
>>56758104
>phobos
>>56757826
>Star Trek
>Free Market
Pick one.
>>56759386
M8 it's gonna need a stable magnetic pole before you can contain any kind of atmosphere.
>>56760791
lots of iron asteroids
>>56760791
Trump is going to make Mars great again.
will ahmed build a gravity-tow rocket and allah snackbar the world?
>>56758363
Oh that's simple then just dont recognise the person's "ownership" of the property.
IE fuel for starting a world/interstellar war over some shitty asteroids
For fucks sake America get your shit together. We can't even resolve disputes over rocks on Earth.. imagine the shit storm over rocks in space.
>>56760872
I can't see how that helps we would need to reignite mars' outer core for there to be strong enough magnetosphere to repel radiation and control a stable climate
>>56757544
Since when did Obama have authority over asteroid resources?
>>56760892
>>56757544
Have some imagination guys
Bubble cities on asteroids with their own system of governance and microeconomy. The solar system will be filled with millions of micro city states. Terraforming is a silly dream when it is much easier to throw a tent over an asteroid.
>>56759075
https://www.rt.com/news/310170-platinum-asteroid-2011-uw-158/
>usa tells me what rocks in space I can/t own
nah fuck that space aint got no govmint
>>56757544
>guys let's pass law to let us mine rocks in space!
>err, how we mine rocks in space?
>hurr durr I'm a stupid politishun
>>56761503
It just means the US will recognize claims made on asteroids. Doesn't mean other nations have to recognize such ownership. It gives anyone whose ownership of asteroids is challenged a legal venue in US courts.
How long into the space mining industries life before environmentalists find some insane excuse to try and regulate it?
>>56761597
just like my expanse wars series!
>>56761794
Might makes right. The United States is one of maybe three powers on Earth that can kill you in space if you fuck with them. Of course if you're able to lob an asteroid down the Earth's gravity well first, you might win though have no planet to go back to. That mining colony better be really cozy.
>>56761688
>>56761688
>Implying adding 180,000,000,000lbs of platinum to the market will not cause the price of platinum to crash like an asteroid just landed on it
>>56762028
When the monopoly is broken.
>>56762028
As soon as they start bringing materials back to Earth.
lmao mining isn't even profitable on Earth anymore
>>56762179
ima lob my space home into earths face they try steppin on muh lawn m8
>>56762028
>We are literally bringing spaces resources here so we can enrich them and pollute our planet before we send them back out into space to repeat the cycle
Took me about 30 seconds, so probably no longer than 4 years for those braindead retards.
>>56762208
Can't wait to see what happens to DeBeers when an asteroid filled with diamonds is discovered.
>>56757544
Why don't we drill here on earth?
>we can fix climate change all we need is a little more money.
Utter waste.
Why is this bill necessary? Why do people need approval from the government to do this?
>>56760726
Star Trek is NOT how the future should turn out
They really fucked over all of humanity in that show.
>>56762376
I hope those jews get fucked, its embarrassing people fell for their scam all because they literally showed them a shiny rock.
>>56761597
>Terraforming is a silly dream when it is much easier to throw a tent over an asteroid.
As long as it can protect from debris.
Building underneath the surface or living in caves helps as well. I'd love to see us colonize the solar system.
The moon would be a great start.
How long before Houston tell us the problem is that an asteroid we were drilling on has moved into tragectory on earth? Rather mine from the scraps of the universe than take from a planet, especially the one we live on. And what are the chances this space rock or rocks we start stealing don't mean something to someone. What if someone harnessed the energy out of orion belt and from Earth it disappeared one day, what would that mean to us and could we do this by stealing asteroids?
>>56757544
>K guys if you take it it's yours it's not like it's preposterous to suggest that if you want to mine asteroids one day you can't have it so we're letting you know you can
Most important bill ever you say?
But really this kind of thing has been running around the govnt for 10 years now at least, there's probably plenty of unpleasantness in the bill.
>>56762454
They don't, but it clears up ownership issues, etc., that might have arisen when they try to monetize whatever they mine back here on Earth.
>>56762477
The REAL Star Trek would be OK -- still have a martial spirit and all.
And the skirts are very short.
>Finally get a loan approved by the U.S. government for three colony starships built by SpaceX
>travel months across space with new ion engines to reach new resources and establish new trade routes
>"the spice must flow".jpg
>land on a beautiful asteroid with plentiful and untouched resources
>after surveying the planet you find space indians
fugg
>mfw
>>56762208
Yeah but we'll still have a shitton of platinum for loads of applications. That's a benefit.
>>56759075
The Earth isn't "the world". It's the planet you live on. There's no reason why we shouldn't explore the very world we live in.
>>56760378
There's no law against hanging his ass
>>56762454
Investors aren't going to put their money into something that has no legal system behind it. The law grants access to the US court system for those who make claims on asteroids. It's not granting permission, it's granting protection.
>>56757544
The time has come.
>>56758627
>Nigger stole my asteroid!
>>56762388
Regulations. There's still more gold in CA but we can't touch it because muh regulations. CA is pretty I guess maybe it's for the best in a long term view of things.
>>56757544
>Own astroid
>Chinese shoot it with laser because it's going to destroy earth
>Sue for damages under the TPP
tee hee.
>>56757826
>government laws to regulate ownership of asteroids
>'free' market
How long before Red Faction?
>>56764684
>This faggots off to play that shit again.
>>56759623
> build a rocket that's fully or near-fully reusable
This has actually happened anon. Recently. I can't remember where I saw it, but you should look it up. It's definitely a thing, or very much so on the right path/close.
>>56764891
>Amazon
>>56758627
Right so when mr big ass corporate man sends his shitty ass asteroid claiming bots onto asteroids and says this shit is mine now. The guy that actually made a proper asteroid mining probe that can actually mine can't actually touch all these asteroids because the gay as monopoly jew has dropped his computer waste onto.
But wait miner goy. You can mine my asteroid if you pay me 6 gorillion shekels in economic rents.
Fuck off.
>>56757659
We need a lot more solar power collecting and some microwave energy receivers in place to power an elevator bruh. May as well use some spare silica and titanium oxide on the moon to build a giant concave lens solar blast furnace for lulz, process that shirt for transport to earf or space structures under construction. Lots of shit to do before an elevator.
>>56765083
Doesn't matter as the chinks will own all the Asteroids except that one the EU got.
Soon enough our souls won't have to be weighed down by earth's gravity.
>>56761915
Well, not really.
You could still sue a country in international court for fucking with your asteroid.
Just like cigarette companies sue countries for infringing on their "right" to have cigarettes without warnings.
