> More importantly: you can't get sued if your space debris trashes someone
> else's mission.
A piece of law that will have to be re-assessed if there ever are any
space colonists, or serious productive industry in LEO. You really
wouldn't want to live somewhere where anyone who "accidentally"
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:05:44 Phillip H. Zakas wrote:
>
>
>you know one of the things i'd like to do is go into the waste removal
>business in orbit. lots of junk up there...would like to launch a satellite
>with a long finger attached to it and poke stuff out of orbit. the "nudge".
>who'd pay?
Peter Trei wrote:
> Expatriate US citizens have to pay
> income tax on foreign earned income
> to the US...If you don't pay up,
> they might not be able to extradite
> you if you're now a foreigner, but
> they'll go after your assets in the
> US, or arrest you if you set foot
> on US soil.
>
> (1
Kalifornica charges property taxes on live-aboard boats
which haven't been in their waters or registered in their
state for years -- or tries to, on the basis that the owner
*used* to live there, even if his current residence if
elsewhere. Or so people on the boating lists complain.
--
Harmon
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> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Dynamite Bob wrote:
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Ray Dillinger wrote:
> Now, if Sri Lanka wanted to charge
> property taxes for some prime
> orbital real estate, it might be
> able to make a better case -- it
> actually *has* prime orbital real
> estate.
Only in Arthur C. Clarks science fiction. The equator does not cross Sri
Lanka. Now Ecua
"Dynamite Bob" wrote:
> Get a load of this lawyer's physics:
>
> "Geostationary satellites sit above
> the equator in a fixed position;
> they do not rotate around the Earth.
Maybe he was making a very sophisticated argument about "frame of reference"
(or maybe not). :-D
S a n d y
So the tr
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Dynamite Bob wrote:
>"The property in question here is geostationary,"
>said Larry Hoenig, a San Francisco attorney
>representing Hughes Electronics. "Geostationary
>satellites sit above the equator in a fixed
>position; they do not rotate around the Earth. So
>the satell
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