Space Law and space settlement

[JoeStrout]

Right. The difference is, we don't need to ever have people living on the seabed (which in most ways is more difficult than space, and already densely inhabited by a rich ecosystem) or in Antarctica (which is admittedly much easier than space, but ultimately a dead end). But we do need (and certainly will have) people living in space, in numbers that eventually far exceed the number of Earthlings. That rich civilization will not just get by without property rights.

The OST authors were shockingly limited in imagination. Sooner or later it's going to have to be thrown out.