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I would like to offer a different view, and suggest that we don't set up our own ASA. My preference would be for an international approach (similar to the ISS) where member countries co-operate with each other. This would eliminate the enormous amount of duplication required for each country to have its own 'ASA', different countries could concentrate more on their specialities and contribute to the overall effort, concentrating efforts to co-operatively solve problems rather than each country individually trying to solve the same problem by itself, etc.
I do not like the idea of 'slicing up real estate'. No individual or country 'owns' any of it, we are just temporary custodians passing through. Think where we would be today if all the money, time and effort wasted on wars was put towards advancing humanity. The same goes for space, none of us will ever 'own' any of it, (I always liken our wars to fleas fighting over the ownership of a camel) so we may as well co-operate and put in a joint effort.
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