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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] The ABM Treaty (bilateral, USA & USSR) and the treaty governing the use and disposition of extraterrestrial objects (multilateral, UN) are not the same treaty at all. The first has to do with man-made, largely land-based objects. The second has to do with naturally-existing bodies. They have vastly different provisions. So no, the ABM system would NOT void this treaty (though it WOULD void the ABM Treaty). Nor would it 'open the door' for commercial development of space. As for the 'Natural Beauty' of the Moon... for whom, colonists? Colonists would by necessity drastically alter the Moon's surface. More alteration would be in-line with their needs and likings, not against it. Imagining giant strip-mines marring the surface of the Moon as seen from Earth is silly. It's too far away to see. Even the detail we can resolve with our big backyard telescopes isn't too big... and we don't observe the Moon with much bigger than those, anymore, because we already KNOW all about it that visual surface scans can tell us. Of course, NEA's would be even better to mine than the Moon, and don't present the aesthetic 'problems.' [/QB][/QUOTE]
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