To what extent should ethics limit the production of knowledge in the natural sciences?
Mining Asteroids
- Funding
- Extra profit
- Natural resources?
- Investment?
Ethics?
- War
- Radiation
- Start at home?
- In the grand scheme of things...
Arguments for space exploration
- Scientific development
- Resources
- Save the planet!
- Get there before Putin flies in shirtless on a bear - diplomatic advantage for whoever gets there first
One-Way Mission to Mars
- Mars One
- 2024; 4 people every 2 years
- No coming back
Arguments against space exploration
- Star Wars
- Expand the Colonialist Empire!
- Radiation
- Space debris
- Galactic real estate?
- Society - Continue or start anew?
- Information & Knowledge
- Start at home?
The Ethics of Space Exploration
Who determines the value of space?
Who decides the type of society?
Who controls what, and why?
Who is sent and why?