My point was, so far all that's needed to claim an asteroid as your own is sticking down a beacon. While Yayoi's is respected because she is, and because it's only the one.... in theory there's nothing stopping any commercial entity from going out there and spamming marker beacons with the sole aim of claiming ownership of the common resource before their competitors manage to do it. It takes weeks to days to survey a rock and determine if it's actually commercially viable, but only minutes to flyby one with a remote drone and drop a marker on it.
The natural business strategy therefore is to claim as much as possible, - especially if claiming is cheap - and survey at your leisure rather than rushing to survey and then claim the rocks you know are good. There's no real cost to claiming, or sitting on a claim. There may however, be a catastrophic cost if you don't claim fast enough.
Actually useful asteroids are not that inexhaustible a resource.
I'm sure the convention registry has dispute resolution mechanisms, or such things as adverse possession or squatters rights. (Hey, it's your own fault for not policing your claim or doing anything with it).
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The natural business strategy therefore is to claim as much as possible, - especially if claiming is cheap - and survey at your leisure rather than rushing to survey and then claim the rocks you know are good. There's no real cost to claiming, or sitting on a claim. There may however, be a catastrophic cost if you don't claim fast enough.
Actually useful asteroids are not that inexhaustible a resource.
I'm sure the convention registry has dispute resolution mechanisms, or such things as adverse possession or squatters rights. (Hey, it's your own fault for not policing your claim or doing anything with it).
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?