Cosmic Coffee Time with Andrew Prestage
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Cosmic Coffee Time with Andrew Prestage
#63 Space Ethics. How do we navigate the ethical challenges of our journey beyond Earth?
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Andrew Prestage
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Season 1
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Episode 63
So we pollute the upper atmosphere with rocket exhaust, is it worth the benefits of communications satellites and GPS? What about space junk? the garbage of earth orbit. Or mining asteroids? who owns the asteroids, can should they be able to sell the minerals asteroids provide?
These are questions that would never have been asked before space travel became as regular as it has today. Let's take a look at this new way of thinking about our responsibilities in space.
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