Comments on: Congressman proposes new legislation to better regulate commercial space https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/congressman-proposes-new-legislation-to-better-regulate-commercial-space/ Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:43:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Gealon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/congressman-proposes-new-legislation-to-better-regulate-commercial-space/#comment-929276 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:43:23 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41645#comment-929276 Correction: Can’t reach past low Earth orbit.

There really needs to be an edit function. Or I need to proof read more then once.

]]> By: Gealon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/congressman-proposes-new-legislation-to-better-regulate-commercial-space/#comment-929274 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:41:06 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41645#comment-929274 Heh, they can write all the silly “law” they want, but if I do one day get my own space ship, all those “laws” will be meaningless because they will have no way to enforce them. Space is the new wild west and lawmen will be few and far between if existent at all. If I park next to an asteroid and want to claim it for my own, no one can stop me. If I clamp my ship to it and shift it’s orbit, no one can stop me. The only way someone could, would be to have a ship of their own and a gun, and then it comes down to who has the longer range gun. All the paper in the world won’t mean a single thing when the long arm of the government can reach past low Earth orbit.

]]> By: Wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/congressman-proposes-new-legislation-to-better-regulate-commercial-space/#comment-929085 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 04:11:39 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41645#comment-929085 ken anthony–

Good stuff. (nay.. “Great Stuff!”)

I was wondering when they would get around to full-blown “regulating” of space. (It’s for our own good, of course. isn’t it always? it’s for the children… don’t-cha-know.)

–This is what happens when “progressives” rewrite the Commerce Clause.

I can see the NY Time’s headline,
“Unregulated Space; woman, minorities, the poor, and Muslims, hit hardest.”

]]> By: ken anthony https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/congressman-proposes-new-legislation-to-better-regulate-commercial-space/#comment-929080 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 03:44:30 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41645#comment-929080 To put it even more simply, as the economist Thomas Sowell points out, regulation is ownership. They have no right unless we hand it to them.

]]> By: ken anthony https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/congressman-proposes-new-legislation-to-better-regulate-commercial-space/#comment-929079 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 03:40:27 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41645#comment-929079 It is such BS that they can write these laws, then point to them as if they were foundational. It’s insane.

The solution is to ignore them, move forward, then oppose them with the reality that comes from ignoring them.

All land ownership is proved by chain of title. All chain of title begins with a claim by possession. If every colonist going to any planet supports this position it doesn’t mater what laws are written to prevent that ownership. That ownership can completely finance colonization making all sorts of other marginal financial means practical. It’s time to stop buying the BS they’re selling. Non-ownership for the benefit of all mankind is not just BS, it’s the most evil form.

Most understand that money is what stops us from colonization, not any other issue. The money issue is a non issue if we simply allow speculators to do what they will if offered the chance. It’s completely a mind set issue.

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