{"id":1479,"date":"2007-11-27T10:26:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2007-11-27T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T18:26:15","slug":"today-countries-battle-for-a-piece-of-the-arctic-tomorrow-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/today-countries-battle-for-a-piece-of-the-arctic-tomorrow-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, Countries Battle for a Piece of the Arctic. Tomorrow? The Moon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/images\/moon-cake.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\"\/>Big ups to my buddy <a href=\"http:\/\/charmandrigor.com\/\">Richard Morgan<\/a> for his neat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/space\/magazine\/15-12\/st_essay\">piece<\/a> in this month&#8217;s issue of <i>Wired<\/i>, on how the rush for the Arctic may have implications for a similar rush on the moon:<br \/>\n<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But what has gone unnoticed amid the international clamor is that the Arctic battle has implications that reach far beyond the top of Earth. The squabbling will be a prelude to \u2014 and even set the tone for \u2014 eventual sovereignty claims on the moon. At the same time that it was making Arctic claims, Russia announced plans for manned lunar missions by 2025 and a permanent base there by 2032. Japan might beat them to the punch with a 2030 base. Both will be able to stop over and share a glass of Tang with US astronauts, who are supposed to start setting up shop in 2020. China also has lunar aspirations, though officials will say only that they plan to get to the moon sometime after 2020.<\/p>\n<p>It could get crowded up there, and the rules for lunar landgrabs will likely be patterned on what is happening now in the far north. &#8220;The recent Arctic events are relevant,&#8221; says Joanne Gabrynowicz, an international space law expert at the University of Mississippi. &#8220;The seabed, high seas, Antarctica, and space are, as a matter of law, global commons. What happens in one can be argued to be legal precedent in the others.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big ups to my buddy Richard Morgan for his neat piece in this month&#8217;s issue of Wired, on how the rush for the Arctic may have implications for a similar rush on the moon: But what has gone unnoticed amid the international clamor is that the Arctic battle has implications that reach far beyond the top of Earth. The squabbling will be a prelude to \u2014 and even set the tone for \u2014 eventual sovereignty claims on the moon. At&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-journalism","category-space","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-nR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}