must have gazed at the sky through clear
starry night and wondered what it must
be like in the vast outer space
immediately followed by a feeling of
existential crisis realizing how small a
part you are of the states antic
universe if you’ve had this feeling
thanks for sharing my daily crisis it
feels amazing to have found fertility in
this room today and I already feel well
good I’m a speech lawyer who loves
cosmology and interlinking the two
concepts I’m currently pursuing an
intuitive idea the idea is overwhelming
yet very basic rather innate something
we should come to a conscience in a very
similar form of how we experience
gravity something in a very intuitive
and neat natural form my talk today
elaborates on human activities in outer
space what have we achieved and where
are we headed in the next few minutes
I’m going to make you travel through
time from past to present the future but
not necessarily in the same auto so let
me start with what what in our space we
have come a long way from orbiting the
force several magnets satellite Sputnik
in 1957 and since then we have built a
society so dependent on space technology
but it is almost impossible to imagine a
day without satellite today while I’m
limited by time to detail all the fronts
where space technology is touching our
lives but in a snapshot
besides military and strategic
advantages of course space is helping
you communicate with ease space is
helping you travel in cities like
Bangalore and not only cities like
Bangalore but throughout the globe with
the help of satellite navigators civil
aviation it also alarms you of global
warming and helps you fight
environmental changes providing you data
which is monitoring deforestation
desertification and watershed management
and the list goes on
all well said and done what what what is
next
police tell my colleagues from the
exciting time to be alive and
generation and the next could possibly
witness space resource mining
colonization of celestial bodies space
dualism they might even possibly use an
elevator to climb to a floating space
station without having to launch oneself
in space rocket feeling three G’s of
force which trust me makes you in a
puker cut out so okay space is amazing
technology is great and human beings are
awesome at solving all problems problem
of the world and they lived happily ever
after
when much like Lau it’s not that simple
let us not deconstruct allow me to
exercise your imaginary mind and bring
the fiction writer inside you to think
let us use it on near future
the date is 38 January 24 50 25th
century I mean because life on Earth
became unsustainable by the end of 23rd
century and space technology advanced so
now human beings have habitations beyond
planet Earth and then as usual busy
scavenging resources from all the
planets including the earth
multiplanetary transportation has become
a usual activity and kids born in this
era
I mean 25th century aren’t even afraid
of going out of the orbit much like how
flying in an airplane has become mundane
activity for a generation so what is
wrong with multi planetary civilization
hogging all available resources let us
come back to the present for a moment
there are laws and when I say law it’s
not only the law promulgated by the
legal authority but laws of universe
nature and cosmos if you say but I will
start with the law of legal order this
is particularly where my legal knowledge
gets in let me tell you there actually
is something on international space law
merely comprising of five international
treaties which is sign in between
nations and they’re binding legal
obligations in between the nations who
have signed them enough with fiction the
reality is many of these space
activities are very practical and
scientific reality particularly space
mining and grabbing an asteroid from the
space good chance at all that the US
would benefit from space resource mining
or space resources within the next two
decades and it is indeed fascinating and
understand your fascination with the
traveler astronaut sorry our traveling
off asteroid or the mining resources but
honestly it is a legal complexity which
is which the world is facing today in
force please let us ask who does the
outer space belong to what enables the
u.s. Europe China India to claim
resources in outer space doesn’t really
belong to anybody the foundation law
regarding outer space the outer space
treaty prescribes that the exploration
and use listen to me very carefully the
exploration and use of outer space is
the province of all mankind so let me
turn a thought experiment here let’s
have some fun this let us imagine this
room to be outer space I am the US and
you’re all different nations you UK you
are you in there are you at China and
even my prophecies both favorites
favorite country Boston I sitting
somebody in the audience so what does
the law say the law says the exploration
and use of this room is that right
conferred upon all of us collectively so
my use of this moon this mic your use of
the asteroid and mass that you’re
sitting on your chairs and the
technicians perfect eye perfect angle to
find find the perfect angle for the
spotlight or satellite it’s the right
bastard upon all of us and only that in
sense as I right the right to explore
and use so does this provision from the
Outer Space Treaty of the foundation law
in your opinion make the outer space the
physical room of the the physical space
of this room province of all mankind
which is to be owned by all of us
collectively or is it only the use of
this mic chairs and spotlight common
heritage of mankind because there is a
big difference between what is a right
of ownership and a right of collective
use doesn’t in simpler term dust space
or the outer space belong to anybody or
nobody originally and one of the
greatest scholar what once said judgment
relax said that is the outer space in
itself with all its vacuum and celestial
bodies a thing which can be all owned by
all of us
even collectively furthermore there’s
one more provision in the other space
relieve it says that the appropriation
of celestial bodies is prohibited which
basically means that I being the u.s.
cannot claim any part of the Moon or the
moon as whole as a territory of the
United States of America well I echo
voice of numerous most qualified
scholars the outer space belongs to
nobody there’s always a popular
consensus far from the interpreted in
the intended interpretation and however
wrong which is that the outer space
belongs to everybody as much to the
India as to the US in between the subtle
friction and relying on the populistic
and rather ill intended interpretation
the u.s. enacted the law enabling
private companies to mine space
resources claim ownership commercially
benefit from it
if you truly understood what I said in
the last few minutes and I’d really hope
you did you should be disturbed by a
question how can somebody have
commercially protected right was
something we just decided not to be
owned by anybody but nevermind this by
all means is going to happen either by
bending laws of framing of new laws
which conform to the capitalist resource
mourning mongering and unsustainable
practice of the society and I only
discuss all of it to prepare you for
what I’m going to say next and it refers
suddenly more to the laws of the nature
of the universe
allow me once again to exercise an
imaginary mind and and let us now think
even bigger and stop opposing a simple
question in your opinion all of your
opinion it’s the universe in cosmos or
chaos by cosmos I mean it has some form
of harmony order and a mechanism in
place to bring in itself stability or in
your opinion universe is chaotic
exploring and dying stars twirling
galaxies pulling massive planets inside
them and all up there in the dark space
is random and wild and if I may use
quite horrifying to be honest but there
are different scientific and
philosophically Riis above on the stupid
or about the concept of cosmos of chaos
but I tend to formally believe that
there exist
a form of cosmic order no matter how
chaotic things are maybe the origins
were chaotic as well but the cosmic
system is continuously striving to
achieve a stability the grand cosmos is
bringing in themselves a stability a
cosmic balance in fact if we look at the
histories of cosmology it is very
interesting to note like histories of
cosmology at different point in time at
different places in the world all all
assumed some some form of cosmic order
in fact if we look at our very own Hindu
cosmology one of the most accurate
cosmological theory according to the
modern-day science prescribes that
assumes natural order don’t as it rest
even in the Chinese philosophy the
ancient Greek philosophy the
philosophies
proper pounded by Pythagoras Aristotle
and even almost scientific Newton
assumed a natural order so you I’m sure
you want to ask me what is really cosmic
balance well it is for me personally it
is not that difficult to understand or
that far let us zoom in a bit in the
cosmic universe and let us look at our
own planet Earth what is it doing it is
producing gases recycling them and even
losing it to outer space meeting in a
habitable environment its meaning the
thermal profile and precise temperatures
as required and cooling down accurately
to sustain the life which this earth has
it is maintaining the percentage of
water and so on and so forth so what we
really conclude from from this the
conclusion is the earth in itself is a
self-regulating natural system with a
natural order and an ax form of harmony
interestingly while I was researching
this concept I stumbled upon interesting
concept proposed by a brilliant NASA
scientist called dr. James now look it
is the Gaia hypothesis the Gaia
hypothesis basically prescribes the
earth itself is a you system a living
organism continuously interacting with
nonliving surroundings self-regulating
the complex processes to maintain a
habitable environment
and the human-induced climate change is
exactly disrupting this cost the eco eco
piloted eco harmony so what if like this
cosmic balance like the eco balance or
know it that really is a cosmic balance
what is to be done what’s to be done is
we dare not disrupt this cosmic balance
and instead we need to preserve it we
need to maintain the cosmic balance if
there exists a cosmic balance and the
universe is a natural system with
harmony in order we better preserve it
what needs to change and this math
central argument what needs to change is
the egocentric view of us human beings
and let me tell you where is ridiculous
parasite sucking all the available
resources with all the unsustainable
practices and now we are planning the
same in outer space the ego that we are
supreme intelligent species and we are
an ultimate control has in many ways
doomed us already and it might do my
son’s basement of health but I’m sure
you would won’t want me to ask if we as
human species or as race have gained the
capability of disrupting the cosmic
balance or cosmic harmony pessimists as
much I may sound the answer to this
question is yes this time allow me to be
a fiction narrator and my journal is
cosmic fiction horror today the date is
15 May 25:56 human beings mind the moon
to an extent that the gravitational pull
between the Earth and the moon has
gotten disrupted the effect of
gravitational pull between the moon and
the earth has a significant
consequential effect on the tidal pools
and the oceans and the ecological
balance on earth so now the earth looks
quite different than what it used to
look
furthermore we conducted such activities
in the electromagnetic shielding around
the earth which protects us from solar
storms and solar radiation we disrupted
that balance and now earth is unable to
hold the oxygen molecules in the
atmosphere and as a result we lost all
the water that was on earth and oceans
have disrupted oceans have vanished and
this is the exact reason why Venus has
no oceans how does it sound
quite harder right it is almost like
hollow obvious lumen race it ready to
face consequences of disrupting the
cosmic balance of cosmic environment and
I mean what in a sense how we understand
on earth today but environment in a
sense that it disrupts a very
fundamental need laws of the nature of
physics like the gravity or
electromagnetic we not this technically
is a fiction and it is not entirely
concluded science but is in fact
interesting to note then bender in the
industrial revolution started nobody
ever believed that industrial effluents
could have a little could have a local
impact environmental impact let alone a
global inspire and that friction is now
a reality and this was really a fiction
if you if you if you see the nose in 99
early 1920s or 1970s this was really a
fiction and this fiction is technically
now what dreadful reality as is already
but it is not a form that I’m talking
about it is the thought that I’m
reflecting on and let me tell you human
beings have already been quite
disruptive in the outer space and I will
in a in a snapshot I’ll describe what
outright crazy actions we have taken in
outer space
what are planning to take I was start by
what happened in the early Space Age
during the duration of 1958 and 1962
when the US and Soviet Union detonated
close to 21 nuclear bombs in outer space
and particularly a project called
starfish prime I don’t know what they
were doing the three guys this bomb was
hundred times more powerful than the
Hiroshima Nagasaki explosion and it was
almost equal to 1.4 million tons of TNT
and effects there was thousands of
kilometers of Earth experience the
phenomenon of sighting Aurora’s and
freely a song and so many talents but
PowerGrid of all the various towns what
take was taken down imagine if they
could do this in 1960s what are the
capabilities now and what could be the
consequences then second is are the
proposals of terraforming this is
basically a lobbied idea by the private
companies who want to
reform the mass or convert mass do a
habitable environment like Earth and
that process involves having a nuclear
explosion on the mass to melt its ice
caps basically then stored one of the
more scary scary part is contamination
that it’s not only about the outer space
and also about the earth while we are
conducting space research we’re bringing
back contaminants and we’re also
bringing the contaminants of Earth to
the outer space and that could have
significant consequential effect what
could be that but there are studies that
show that microbes that could in turn
get introduced to earth environment
could cover the whole planet within days
and that could have severe environmental
impact and due to many man-made debris
that is there’s a growing concern with
the orbital sustainability and we won’t
be able to flow satellites as well and
this is just the beginning of our
modern-day exploration or exploitation
of the space my idea is to leave you
with this let us change our egoistic
human centric perspective and understand
we are only a part of this giant
universe we need to change the
perspective and we need to understand
that we cannot continue to perceive the
nature as outside of us we are within it
it’s a symbiotic relationship and we
share this relationship with the nature
of the cosmos and this idea needs to be
instilled we need to formally believe
that the outer space much like the earth
is a self-regulated mechanism which has
a natural harmony in order and we need
to preserve it because if we don’t and
if we disrupt the cosmic balance there
would be no blame to put put on each
other as nations but it would be a
collective responsibility of entire
human class and so we’ll do the
consequences mind you we won’t be ready
for that and that is the idea worth spreading thank you