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Eye-patch on and crank up your best “grrr.”
And while you’re at it, plop down a stack of doubloons and conjure up visions of “Captain” Jack Sparrow!
Talk about “high crimes” and misdemeanors. The growing pace of space as a commercial resource brings with it the prospect for misdeeds, corruption, piracy, and war.
The Center for the Study of Space Crime, Policy, and Governance (CSCPG) is looking into the risks of piracy in space and solutions to this potentially devastating economic and legal problem.
They call it “speculative non-fiction” – to learn more, go to my new Space.com story – “Space pirates already have their sights set on the ‘high seas’ of Earth orbit. Can we stop them?” – at:
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/space-pirates-already-have-their-sights-set-on-the-high-seas-of-earth-orbit-can-we-stop-them
Image credit: Naval History and Heritage Command