You can get more information about outer space treaties and space
law at this excellent website from UN:
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SpaceLaw/spacelaw.htm
An excerpt from a 1962 UN resolution and the 1967 treaty:
"3. Outer space and celestial bodies are not subject to national
appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation,
or by any other means."
The question remains: where are the limits of outer space ?
Marcel
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002 <orc@o...>"
<orc@o...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Karolis
>
> > > because space expands the farther from the earth you go
> > > the sizes of the countries are actually bigger up there
> >
> > yea, but to know by how much they expand and where to set
> the
> > borders, you would have to know where the space ends, and it
> doesn't.
>
> you wouldnt necessarily have to consider or know this
>
> just imagine inflating a balloon with a global map printed on it
> & watching all the countries grow constantly & proportionally
> but just dont imagine the balloon ever bursting
>
> this is a pretty fair model for the expansion i am referring to
> & for what i think is actually expected
> in the absense of any more exacting legal principle
>
> > And if the height of the sovereignty is unlimited then all of the
> > planets in the universe also fall in to some country, and into
> > different countries at different times.
>
> strange i admit but correct
>
> > But to me it would make a lot of sense if the sovereignty ended
> where
> > the domain of our planet ends - the outer limit of the
> atmosphere,
> > tho I don't think that is set anywhere legaly.
>
> right
> & that was the question i believe
>
> > But isn't there some
> > UN resolution about usage of outer space and other palnets or
> > something?
>
> yes for everybody to go in peace & just have fun or something
>
> > Also keep in mind that since air space and ground depths are
> federal,
>
> whaaattt
>
> > administrational divisions don't really exist.
>
> wow
> i had thought that all countries & administrative divisions &
> indeed every point on earth all converged to a single point at the
> center of the earth
> but continued to exist there
> & at all levels everywhere
> whether shrunken or inflated by relative elevation
> both below & above the surface of the earth
>
> i suppose your view is possible
> but is there really some legal basis for it
>
> i do believe there is a real basis for practically unlimited
> subsurface & air rights tho
>
> Because they can't
> > because they are two dimensional in three dimensional
> space. Or maybe
> > you could say that the top layer of molecules on the ground
> belongs
> > to the state, district or whatever, everything else is federal.
>
> bravo
> youve spaced me out