hey john
thats not in the old testament at all
& i dont know of any upward limit on sovereign air space
except of course what one can practically maintain control over
worse yet
because space expands the farther from the earth you go
the sizes of the countries are actually bigger up there
not sure that joke link is still working tho
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "John Seeliger"
<jseelige@a...> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Seeliger" <jseelige@a...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 1:22 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Somewhat OT: Where does space
begin
>
>
> > A few months ago, I watched a PBS program on the great
ballon race, and at
> > one time, a Remax team was planning an around the world
attempt in a large
> > ballon that would fly at an altitude of 125 or 150,000 feet,
leaving
> > Australia and travelling slowly westward. My question is how
high does a
> > nation's airspace go? At what altitude would a ballon, plane,
rocket have
> > to travel before it could legally over a country without its
permission.
> >
> > Oh, BTW, they wisely decided not to do the voyage. First they
had gone
> from
> > five guys to four to save weight, but then (having trouble
bailing out of
> a
> > capsule in a space suit) scrapped the mission entirely.
>
> BTW, this reminded me of a SNL joke that I didn't find until
sending this:
>
> http://www.fallon-infomedia.com/quotessnl.html:
>
> "an Australian man, Rodd Milner, announced that next March
he plans to
> skydive 25 miles above the earth reaching speeds over a
thousand miles an
> hour and breaking the sound barrier. And in future new...Rodd
Milner is dead
> "
>
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