Re: We, first loosers for 100 years.

On Sat, 27 May 2006 15:44:36 -0400, in a place far, far away,
LooseChanj <LooseChanj@xxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

On or about Sat, 27 May 2006 14:42:22 -0400, Rand Simberg <simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx> made the sensational claim that:
On Sat, 27 May 2006 14:05:25 -0400, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
One: Antarctica. Nations can't claim parts of it, but does that mean
that a group of individuals couldn't go there and set up a small
society of their own?

Yes. They will be subject to *someone's* laws, of an existing state.

I don't see how that *wouldn't* apply to space as well.

Why would it? The two legal regimes aren't at all the same.

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