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> Regulating launches is a losing battle 1. Why? 2. What's a better alternative? Shooting stuff out of LEO with lasers...? > the company will just move elsew
by throwawayjava 8y ago
> Regulating launches is a losing battle
1. Why?
2. What's a better alternative? Shooting stuff out of LEO with lasers...?
> the company will just move elsewhere, or have a subsidiary or contractor "own" the satellite.
So what? Those things are only magic check-mate cards if the government lets them be. And... why the hell should any government let them be?
> And practically speaking, they have no enforcement capabilities in this realm.
We can't bring people back to life, but that doesn't mean that a country can't punish people for murder the moment they step foot inside that country's borders.