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How Do We Rule The Universe?

How Do We Rule The Universe?

Update: 2018-01-1115
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Governing moon miners, asteroid hunters and space junk sounds pretty tricky, but we better get our act together. This year the majority of space launches included commercial enterprises. Space is no longer just the playground of governments but companies; companies that want to mine the moon for water that they could sell as rocket fuel, companies that want to mine the moon for helium -3 which could be sold and used as energy back on earth and companies that want to mine asteroids for platinum that they could sell for huge profits. But is this legal?

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How Do We Rule The Universe?

How Do We Rule The Universe?

BBC World Service