Galactic Gold Rush: Lawfulness, Lawlessness, and Preservation of the Outer Space Environment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Leading spacefaring powers plan to revisit the Moon, extract lunar resources, and someday springboard from the Moon to Mars and other celestial bodies.Against these ambitions, the core of space law was formulated in an era of two-State space competition with sometimes short-sighted notions of space exploration.This Thesis overlays the black-and-white space law paradigm of the Cold War with the technicolor reality of space aspirations in 2023 and beyond.It assumes that prevailing space laws permit lunar settlement and resource extraction to some extent.Yet, a vacuum of specific norms and regulations incentivizes a "galactic gold rush" that will foster destructive, unsustainable practices with irreversible effects.This Thesis examines whether the current space law framework adequately protects against lunar resource depletion, land conservation, and preservation of historic sites on the Moon.It argues that legal protections cannot keep pace with technological advances.The methodology weighs potential environmental harms against legal safeguards while valuing an interchangeable menu of environmental concerns.Furthermore, because space laws are inadequate to protect these concerns, this Thesis assesses alternative legal measures to guide future space exploration and resource extraction.The Galactic Gold Rush must be disincentivized at all costs.With years remaining before national space programs and private companies can fulfill promises of lunar and Martian settlement, there is still time to formulate helpful norms and best practices in outer space, avoiding hasty lawlessness, environmental harm, and wasteland-legacies of the California Gold Rush.v RsumLes principales puissances spatiales prvoient de retourner sur la Lune, d'extraire des ressources lunaires et d'un jour se servir de la Lune comme tremplin pour se rendre sur Mars et d'autres corps clestes.Face ces ambitions, le coeur du droit de l'Espace a t conu une poque de comptition spatiale entre deux tats avec des ides parfois sans vision long terme de l'exploration spatiale.Cette thse oppose le paradigme sans contraste du droit spatial issu de la guerre froide la ralit complexe des aspirations spatiales de 2023 et au-del.Elle suppose que le droit de l'Espace en vigueur permette dans une certaine mesure l'tablissement lunaire et l'extraction de ressources.Cependant, l'absence de normes et de rglementations spcifiques incite une rue vers l'or galactique qui favorisera des pratiques destructrices et insoutenables aux effets irrversibles.x
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".