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5 months ago in Comparative Law By Jennifer

What can space law learn from how we govern the oceans and antarctica?

We're heading toward mining the Moon and setting up orbital toll roads, and we barely have rules. Are there lessons from how we (sort of) managed to govern the oceans and Antarctica?

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By Meera Answered 1 month ago

Not a dumb question it's actually a clean way to realize these describe totally different phenomena. Hooke's Law is about elasticity: the restoring force from stretching a spring. It requires a physical material and an equilibrium point. Gravity is about mass attraction over distance. No spring, no equilibrium, no linear relationship. You can't derive one from the other. They just live in different conceptual buckets.

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