{"id":677447,"date":"2010-02-25T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23317"},"modified":"2010-02-25T09:17:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:17:41","slug":"new-outer-space-policy-%e2%80%93-rights-for-martians-and-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/677447","title":{"rendered":"New Outer Space Policy \u2013 Rights for Martians and Astronauts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12083\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/SpaceClown-300x217.jpg?resize=270%2C195\" alt=\"SpaceClown\" width=\"270\" height=\"195\" \/>Professor Andy Miah notes <a href=\"http:\/\/hplusmagazine.com\/editors-blog\/extraterrestrial-ethics\">there&#8217;s already international government policies taking hold on outer space<\/a> &#8211; and a need for new ethical guidelines. &#8220;For instance, what obligations do we owe to the various life forms we send there, or those we might discover? Can we develop a more considerate approach to colonizing outer space than we were able to achieve for various sectors of Earth?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And what rights do astronauts have? &#8220;Could our inevitable public surveillance of their behavior become too much of an infringement on their personal privacy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But more importantly, professor Miah notes that &#8220;the goods of space exploration far exceed the symbolic value,&#8221; pointing out that &#8220;A vast amount of research and development derives from space exploration&#8230; For example, the United Kingdom&#8217;s 2007 Space Policy inquiry indicated that the creation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Andy Miah notes there&#8217;s already international government policies taking hold on outer space &#8211; and a need for new ethical guidelines. &#8220;For instance, what obligations do we owe to the various life forms we send there, or those we might discover? Can we develop a more considerate approach to colonizing outer space than we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Qez","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}