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Trump signs an executive order allowing mining the moon and asteroids
- stevespang 6y ago. . . Sergey Saveliev, Roscosmos' deputy director-general on international cooperation: "Attempts to expropriate outer space and aggressive plans to actually seize territories of other planets hardly set the countries (on course for) fruitful cooperation. There have already been examples in history when one country decided to start seizing territories in its interest—everyone remembers what came of it." Indeed, Sergey, look no farther than Crimea. Actually, I am eagerly anticipating Russian Space Pirate ships, seizing the bootie from asteroid miners just as they come back within range of Earth fully loaded . . .