How to Avoid a Cosmic Catastrophe

> One way to avoid a cosmic catastrophe of this type is to establish an interstellar treaty, similar to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed first in 1963 by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.

This is outrageously speculative to be the point of an article in a science magazine article. It would be perfectly appropriate to a story in a science fiction magazine.

It reminds me of the conceit in No Man's Sky where you can explore a vast galaxy, but everywhere you go the same rules are enforced by police drones. It's a vision of a cosmos in which law trumps natural law.