Check out this fascinating Twitter thread by Kevin Bell, a lawyer at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. He details how a whistleblower informed him of a new spacecraft thruster system that used mercury, a powerful neurotoxin that, once emitted, would eventually fall back to the Earth’s surface. It’s an illustrative case of how legal and regulatory frameworks often don’t keep up with the speed of technological development.
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