yeah the outer space treaty isn’t gonna help lmao
because
1. you don’t need to claim land to establish a colony, just build something there and say “this building is mine, and due to safety concerns there is a radius 50m around said building that belongs to me” which is completely allowed under the outer space treaty because you technically didn’t claim any land
The Artemis Accords is (i think) the only law that even talks about this and they say (i think) that a country can claim a 10m area around their habitats for safety. Only thing is China hasn’t signed the artemis accords and so isn’t subject to that number

2. the outer space treaty was never meant to be permanent space law, it’s considered to just be a placeholder until something more serious gets put in place, so i don’t expect it to hold any weight for much longer

3. even if people took the outer space treaty seriously there’s no way to enforce it, and a law without a way to make sure people follow it isn’t really a law

4. China has been known to take a… unique viewpoint on laws. They’ve literally built islands in the ocean and said “hey look since I own this island my border actually extends out to here, not the internationally recognized one” and i find it extremely likely they’ll do the exact same thing on the moon (“hey look, i built another storage facility here, my colony borders are actually here”)

5. The outer space treaty says nothing about private companies, so countries could just get companies to build stuff for them and then eventually take over (british east india company is a nice example of this from the past that i could see something similar happening with the moon)

…but, but, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty "[precluds] any country from claiming sovereignty over outer space or any celestial body", so nothing bad can happen 'cuse there's paper….

nice

yes i got reccomended that J1407b video and it was very good

i make space videos

You that guy from youtube?

i remember you

that’s awesome!! reminds me of zoom.earth which is one of the bestest sites ever

also when you click this youll be on a 2d map, to switch to 3d click the globe in the corner and switch the projection to Lunar Globe (3D)

thanks

i manually did it for ya

here are the 33 potential asteroids the company could be going to if you’re interested

(450237) 2002 XY38
(506590) 2005 XB1
2010 AE30
2010 CO44
2010 CD55
2010 EX11
2010 FT
2010 FE7
2010 FR9
2010 FA81
2010 GZ5
2010 GL23
2010 HX107
2010 JW39
2010 KP10
2010 MY1
2010 QG2
2010 UC7
2010 VK139
2010 WB
2011 AV55
2014 FD
2014 VG2
2015 FN120
2015 VF1
2015 XE
2016 AD166
2016 BJ15
2016 JW28
2016 LD9
2016 RW
2016 TX17
2016 XA18