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Something I learned recently. There exists a 1967 international treaty that no space exploration can touch external water of any sort to prevent earth duelers f
by mike10921 3y ago
Something I learned recently. There exists a 1967 international treaty that no space exploration can touch external water of any sort to prevent earth duelers from contaminating water outside Earth.
https://spacethoughtsblog.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/addressing-media-missteps-about-the-outer-space-treaty-and-water-sources-on-mars/#:~:text=The%20world's%20space%20powers%20are,it%20with%20life%20from%20Earth https://spacethoughtsblog.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/addressin....
- kelsolaar 3y agoWould not it go both ways? We would not want to be contaminated either.
- Zircom 3y agoGetting to these planets or moons that have water in the first place is already hard, getting back from them is pretty much such a big nonstarter at the moment it's not worth thinking or worrying about.
- rasz 3y agoCoincidentally Outer Space Treaty has same signatories as 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances. Feel free to look up how that last one worked out.