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Originally Posted by Astromancer
In 1947 a spaceship lands near Washington DC, it a minor trader/scavenger group. Basically good natured. They trade some details on superconductivity for rare Earths.
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Rare earths become valuable. You want a stockpile either as trade goods for the next ship or because if they are valuable to someone with the tceh to do interstellar travel they must be real useful.
There will be nothing like the current Moon treaty where no one claims rights to objects in space.
Science fiction and movies change in ways I'm not sure of. SF probably becomes much more popular. Do movies in the 50s have more or less aliens as threats?