Space Junk - Beyond anthropocentrism: sustainable uses of Space (with Chris Johnson)
Listen now
Description
In this episode, Secure World Foundation Space Lawyer Chris Johnson and I branch out from our discussion on the tardigrades on the Moon to chat about the benefits of using robots for space exploration, whether it's possible to interpret space law in a non-anthropocentric manner, and what it means to use space sustainably. We also touch on astropolitics and archaeology, because why not? Media mentioned include: The Three Body Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel) Peaks of Eternal Light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964616300194 More information can be found in the series of essays published by Chris Johnson, Dan Porras, and others in The Space Review. Part 1: www.thespacereview.com/article/3783/1 Part 2: www.thespacereview.com/article/3786/1
More Episodes
CONTENT WARNING: please be aware that this episode includes detailed discussions of wartime killing, and of targeted airstrikes in particular. In this episode I speak to Wing Commander Duncan Blake who spent 22 years as a legal officer in the Royal Australian Air Force, most recently in the...
Published 01/13/22
Published 01/13/22
This week I spoke to David Knoff, who recently spent 537 days in Antarctica as the leader at Davis Station. David and his team did not know when they left Australia in late 2019, that the COVID-19 pandemic would change the world and leave them isolated longer than they had ever expected and force...
Published 08/13/21