"Space War"

[Jim Choate]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Ray Dillinger wrote:

> Second, it pretty much means the US is going to have to withdraw 
> from the space treaty of 1965, which bans space weapons.  This 
> latter is actually more interesting to me, because that treaty 
> also bans national claims of sovereignty over off-earth property 
> (or else Neil Armstrong would have been saying the ancient 
> incantation, "we claim this new land in the name of...." when he 
> planted that American flag on the moon in '69) and, more 
> importantly, private claims of ownership on off-earth property.

He did do that you silly goose. He claimed it in the name of the US for
'All mankind'...

Check the web.


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