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Setting aside the political commentary, this is kinda interesting stuff whatever your interpretive lens on it.
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Christine Bichsel uses the concept of “imperial debris” (Stoler 2008) to examine rocket debris on the Kazakh steppe, exploring the material and social afterlife of structures, sensibilities and things that result from an imperial formation. societyandspace.org/articles/when-
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“The spatial extent of Russian quasi-sovereignty is not fixed, but fluctuating along the flight trajectories of rockets, as Russian mobile teams move into Kazakhstan to recover rocket stages (Kopak 2019).”
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“Scrap metal dealers compete with recovery teams for rocket debris and salvage light metal, titanium and aluminium alloys, and copper wire.” Wonder if this is where Star Wars got its scavenger motifs from. Luke, Rey, and the Mandalorian all feature space debris scavengers.
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y'know come to think of it, asteroid mining with nuclear powered semi-self-replicating equipment would be virtually guilt-free resource extraction
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