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Old 29-07-2009, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by bojan View Post
The moment they figure out the treaty is in the way of their business, "they" will pronounce it invalid. Or "they" will will find the ways how to circumvent it ("scientific mining"? why not?)
One can argue the Antarctic treaty which has been around since 1960 has been successful in preventing this very thing from happening.

The Outer Space treaty like the Antarctic treaty operates on the same principles.

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