/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8590599
>The argument is long over friend. Your side lost.

>>8585718
>The US can't go against the UN's imposed limitations on space exploration.
What are you even talking about? The UN isn't some "boss of the world" organization. They basically provide a place for countries to go and talk to each other about what treaties they might make and what to do when they break them.

The US can and does do things "the UN" doesn't like.

>4years (assuming he's not impeached) of drumpf in power will do nothing about that.
8 years. With Republican control of Congress. And the opportunity to install a clear conservative majority in the Supreme Court. And rapidly approaching the number of Republican legislatures needed to make constitutional amendments.

The wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Democrats is not for nothing. They are truly being cast into the outer darkness.

Anyway, yes the President and Congress together have the power to make and withdraw from treaties. Unlike Obama's "executive agreements" which are completely non-binding the day he leaves office, and his "regulations" which can be erased by Trump with no support from Congress at all.

The Outer Space Treaty in particular was understood to be temporary from the beginning. It was a set of rules for the early exploratory/science phase, so people wouldn't do stupid, war-starting shit like barely be able to plant a flag on the moon and then claim they owned the whole thing forever. It was always understood that an exploitation/colonization phase would follow, and new treaties would be written.