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Star Ownership
- carl_dr 4y agoI love the relativity/statute of limitations joke at the end of the article, it’s well worth reading the article for.
- t0bia_s 4y ago-"How is it possible for one to own the stars?" -"To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. -"I don't know. To nobody." -"Then they belong to me, because I was the first person to think of it." - Antoine de Saint Exupéry - The little prince
- richardjam73 4y agoBroadwater in this case is right next to Stanthorpe in the Southern Downs in Queensland not Broadwater in NSW nor Broadwater in the Gold Coast in Queensland.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoI know it's a joke yet it's interesting for it to mention: "Luckily for the New Jersey court system, altitudes above about 12 miles are generally considered "high seas." According to the American Bar Association's Winter 2012 issue of the Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee Newsletter, this means that deaths above these altitudes—even deaths in space—are arguably covered by the 1920 Death on the High Seas Act, or DOHSA." The boundary to space pretty well accepted as the Karman line at 100 km, deaths above this altitude shouldn't be registered to any particular country, except for apparently the U.S.