{"id":3782,"date":"2022-01-06T15:56:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2022-04-08T12:12:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:12:29","slug":"elon-musk-the-law-and-mars-unibaseno-6173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/?p=3782","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk, the law and Mars \u2013 UniBase#no.6173"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/geheimrat.com\">GeheimRat<\/a> solicited comments from experts at the United Nations&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/pages\/home.aspx\">OHCHR<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Committee_on_the_Peaceful_Uses_of_Outer_Space\">UNCOPUOS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Office_for_Outer_Space_Affairs\">UNOOSA<\/a>), the ETO Consortium, NASA,&nbsp;ROSCOSMOS, ESA,&nbsp;CNSA, and from the legal field as part of the funded conceptual art&nbsp;work <a href=\"https:\/\/6173.geheimrat.com\">UniBase#no.6173<\/a>. The subject is the&nbsp;2020 announcement that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elon_Musk\">Elon&nbsp;Musk<\/a> had hired SpaceX&#8217;s general counsel to draft a constitution for&nbsp;the planet <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars\">Mars<\/a>: &#8222;I&#8217;m actually&nbsp;working on a constitution for Mars. No&nbsp;country can claim sovereignty over heavenly bodies\u201c (David Anderman,&nbsp;former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\">SpaceX<\/a>&nbsp;General Counsel, 2020). Comments received were forwarded&nbsp;to the General Counsel, Vice President, COO, and SpaceX CEO Elon&nbsp;Musk,&nbsp;who were also asked for their assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/6173_Const_DE-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/6173_Const_DE-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/6173_Const_DE-1-768x420.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fundamental to all activities in space, according to the comments&nbsp;received, are the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Outer_Space_Treaty\"> Outer Space Treaty of 1967<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charter_of_the_United_Nations\">United&nbsp;Nations&nbsp;Charter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_law\">international law<\/a>. The claim of sovereignty, such as the&nbsp;installation of a constitution, by a single&nbsp;nation or by non-state legal&nbsp;entities (such as the SpaceX company) would consequently be unlawful&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vilp.de\/treaty_full?lid=de&amp;cid=197\">see Art. II, VI and VIII&nbsp;Outer Space Treaty<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/6173_celestBodies_EN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/6173_celestBodies_EN.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/6173_celestBodies_EN-768x418.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally, if one of the contracting states (currently 110) fears&nbsp;interference with the use and exploration of outer space&nbsp;and celestial&nbsp;bodies, it may request consultations on planned undertakings and&nbsp;experiments (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vilp.de\/treaty_full?lid=de&amp;cid=197\">Article IX Outer Space Treaty<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"811\" src=\"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/6173_Proc_EN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/6173_Proc_EN.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/6173_Proc_EN-768x623.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><strong>CONTACT:<\/strong><br \/>artLABOR e.V.:&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"mailto:press@artlabor.eyes2k.net\">press@artlabor.eyes2k.net<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ph: +49.(0)3212.1031038 or&nbsp;<br \/><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/geheimrat.com\/\">GeheimRat.com<\/a>:&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"mailto:studio@GeheimRat.com\">studio@GeheimRat.com<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ph: +49.(0)3212.1031065<br \/>Download text and images [3,6MB]:&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/download.geheimrat.com\/artL_PR_en_UniBase6173.pdf\">https:\/\/download.GeheimRat.com\/artL_PR_en_UniBase6173.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Web:<\/strong> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/6173.geheimrat.com\/\">https:\/\/6173.GeheimRat.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vg07.met.vgwort.de\/na\/e3063be241ed42fa8ce14b8b05d4e953\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 GeheimRat solicited comments from experts at the United Nations&nbsp;(OHCHR, UNCOPUOS, UNOOSA), the ETO Consortium, NASA,&nbsp;ROSCOSMOS, ESA,&nbsp;CNSA, and from the legal field as part of the funded conceptual art&nbsp;work UniBase#no.6173. The subject is the&nbsp;2020 announcement that Elon&nbsp;Musk had hired SpaceX&#8217;s general counsel to draft a constitution for&nbsp;the planet Mars: &#8222;I&#8217;m actually&nbsp;working on a constitution for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/?p=3782\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk, the law and Mars \u2013 UniBase#no.6173<\/span> weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,3,4],"tags":[581,633,635,634,628,626],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artallgemein","category-artfreiheit","category-artist","category-artservice","tag-artlabor","tag-elon-musk","tag-mars","tag-outer-space-treaty","tag-spacex","tag-unibase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artlabor.eyes2k.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}