Lunokhod : Science Photo Library release (BBC Science News site), Image showing a model of the Soviet Lunokhod-1 Moon rover |
Lunokhod : Science Photo Library release (BBC Science News site), Image showing a model of the Soviet Lunokhod-1 Moon rover |
Nov 27 2006, 05:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 11-October 04 From: Oxford, UK (Glasgow by birth) Member No.: 101 |
Pic and brief description here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_...7269/html/1.stm Doesn't that red soil throw you for a bit...........? Brian -------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Nov 28 2006, 06:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
I've listened through a long Usenet argument about the legal ownership status of man-made items left on the Moon. The gist, as I recall it, is that you can make a good case for the equipment having been abandoned, and therefore it would legal for a third party to salvage it. If the two governments (and one putative private owner) intend to make a case for ownership at some future time, I think it's incumbent upon them to make such declarations at the time of apparent abandonment.
I believe the rule is that the equipment still belongs to the respective original owners until/unless a legal attempt at salvage is made, however. Of course, this all has to do with legal matters (international ones, at that) and so I could be completely wrong... But I believe the above is what a few lawyers came up with in that overly-long Usenet discussion. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Nov 28 2006, 08:38 AM
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