Space Resources: Promising and Problematic?
Exploratory Seminar at the Radcliffe Institute
October 15-16, 2018
Sheerr Room, First Floor of Fay House, Radcliffe Institute
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---Please kindly note that this schedule is preliminary.---
Sunday, October 14
6:30 PM Dinner, Nubar Restaurant, Sheraton Commander Hotel
16 Garden Street, Cambridge
Monday, October 15
8:30 – 9 AM Continental Breakfast
9 – 10:30 AM What space resources?
Chair: Weinzierl
Roger Fu: “Where are the space resources?”
Martin Elvis: “Scarcity in Space: science, policy, law, & ethics”
Panel: Faber, Krolikowski; Mix, Newell
10:30 – 11 AM Break
11 AM – 12:30 PM Why would it be done?
Chair, Krolikowski
Daniel Faber: “Markets in Space: You won't buy it, even if it's free”
Matt Weinzierl: “Some Preliminary Economics of Asteroid Mining”
Daniel Zizzamia: “The Final Frontier and the End of History”
Panel: Elvis, McDowell; Denning, Milligan
12:30 – 2 PM Lunch
2 PM – 3:30 PM Can it be done?
Chair, Elvis
Jeff Hoffman: Working in Space
Jonathan McDowell: “The changing cast of space actors: internationalization, commercialization and
democratization”
Avi Loeb: “Breaking the Walls of the Solar System”
Panel: von der Dunk, Hersch; Cockell, Wood
3:30 – 4 PM Break
4 – 5:30 PM Who decides how it's done?
Chair, Cockell
Frans von der Dunk: “Space mining and the law”
Alanna Krolikowski: “Making Policy for New Activities in Outer Space: In pursuit of science, settlement,
security, or sales?”
Matthew Hersch: “The Miner's Lament”
Panel: Hoffman, Wordsworth; White, Zizzamia
6 PM Dinner, North Dining Room, Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, October 16
8:30 – 9 AM Continental Breakfast
9 – 10:30 AM How would it affect us as individuals?
Chair, Denning
Charles Cockell: “Liberty on the Space Frontier - Effects of settlement and resource use”
Danielle Wood: Effects for people on Earth
Frank White: "The Overview Effect and Space Resources”
Tony Milligan: "The Ethics of Space Expansion: impact and damage”
Panel: Fu, Loeb; Weinzierl, von der Dunk
10:30 – 11 AM Break
11 AM – 12:30 PM How would it affect us as a species?
Chair, von der Dunk
Kathryn Denning: “On Rocks and Revolutions: Some challenges to thinking straight about space resources
and the future”
Lucas Mix: “Is Space Available?”
Catherine Newell: “Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and America's Final Frontier”
Panel: Elvis, Wordsworth; Krolikowski, Hersch
12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 – 2:15 PM Discussions within subgroups of mixed disciplines
1. Technology & Science
2. Business, Policy & Law
3. Ethics & Culture
2:15 – 2:30 PM Break
2:30 – 3:30 PM Reports from each subgroup
Plenary discussion
What is to be done?