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RE: Bugs In the News: Bacteria boozing it up in NASA clean rooms
A smashing article, as usual. Totally accessible to the non-scientist and informative. However, I am really skeptical about space law. I mean, c'mon. Look at the G7. Look at NAFTA. Look at the Transpacific partnership. Or nuclear arms treaties. Will China, Russia or even Canada (!!) be bound by agreements that seem to cement US advantage? Look at the South China Sea, or Crimea.
I think contaminating space with our bugs is almost inevitable. Which is a scary thought, with consequences perhaps left to the imagination of our best science fiction writers. Truth is often present there before it becomes a reality.
Oh for sure, it's a bit more of an ideal than super binding. However, space is hard enough to get to that it's a bit more like Antarctica at this point, and the analogous treaties there have been somewhat stable.