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welcome to the conkey ride home for thursday November 4th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, new

international space laws may soon be on the horizon, plus the brewing battles between artists

using AI to reconstruct lost artworks and the estates of the original artists.

And some steel igloos in Iceland that protect one of the most promising examples of carbon capture yet.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Anyone who's watched the Apple TV Plus show for all mankind, especially its most

recent season finale, will breathe a sigh of relief at this news. A group of diplomats at the United

Nations has proposed we update and develop new rules for international behavior in space. Or should I say intergalactic?

Actually, no, not really. I mean, if any Earth nation is successfully able to send a human beyond the Milky Way,

we can revise these rules again then. But for now, we'll focus on relations between Earth nations

when representatives of said nations

are up in space within the confines of our own galaxy. Basically, space is getting crowded

with people, with satellites, with spacecraft, and with debris. Meanwhile, many spacefaring nations

are advancing their military satellite capabilities,

and I am sure I am not alone in being pretty freaked out by the idea of a space war

or of some kind of space weaponry aimed at Earth, so some kind of new rules sounds good to me.

And there are some existing norms for international space law, mostly based on the

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