Subject: Re: Three-dimensional boundaries<br/>
Date: Nov 24, 2001 @ 14:35<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1501012545">Peter:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Normally, boundaries are only two-dimensional, and as far as I know <br/>
&gt; everything straight below and above the surface belongs to the <br/>
&gt; country that IS that surface. <br/>
 </span></blockquote>As I recall, that was part of the plot of a Heinlein story in the 50s,<br/>
called (I think) The Man Who Bought the Moon. The usual Heinlein<br/>
hard-nosed multimillionaire libertarian engineer bought the rights to<br/>
the moon from every country over which it passed in its orbit (~28.5<br/>
degrees N&S of the equator) for various paltry sums, and then (of<br/>
course) unveiled his mighty rocket, flew off and landed on it.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>