Do Spaceship wrecks count as shipwrecks ?

[itmaiden]

Does hunting debris from spaceships count as hunting salvage from shipwrecks ?

If so, anyone want to go after this ? Should be worth a pretty piece Investors anyone ?

Funny, in all the years of space news, never heard of this one.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...on-100427.html

itmaiden

[Saturna]

I found a few tons of coins once, that the Martians took from Pluto. They were lost in a spaceship wreck on Titan. They sat there for a couple of light years but after I recovered them, the Martians claimed ownership.

It's still in the Space Court on Neptune.

[GopherDaGold]

Once we get the necessary funding for the Uranus name change, we will begin research into recovering the reflector.
After years of ridicule and schoolyard humor, it was overwhelmingly decided to re-name the planet as Urbutthole.
New textbooks will be forthcoming and I hope we can put this silliness behind us once and for all.

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

ITmaidin, You posted -> Does hunting debris from spaceships count as hunting salvage from shipwrecks ?
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Relax gentlemen, it was an honest question. She is 'not' referring to Extraterrestrials, but to 'our' space debris.

Interesting question, I believe that it might come under Sovereign law. Capital ships not being used for commercial usage.

Don Jose de La Mancha

[Saturna]

I found a few tons of coins once, that the Martians took from Pluto. They were lost in a spaceship wreck on Titan. They sat there for a couple of light years but after I recovered them, the Martians claimed ownership.

It's still in the Space Court on Neptune.

Just a bit o' humor, Dell. Ignore it if desired.

[Jeep]

Mmmmmmm.

Acutally this is a very good question.

The answer however is no.

The United Nations outer space treaty of 1967 covered this in the UNITED NATIONS TREATIES AND PRINCIPLES ON OUTER SPACE (article #VIII)

You can download your own copy here:

http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/pdf/pub...STSPACE11E.pdf

[itmaiden]

Well, hmm...The United States is already in violation of 3 of the provisions of the UN Treaty (violating treaties is common of the US is it not ?) So if they have violated the Treaty, do the provisions of the Treaty for US rights still stand ?

#1) No country is suppose to risk bringing in contamination from outer space. Everytime a spaceship, satellite, etc re-enters our atmosphere, it is possibly bringing in contaminents or possibly substances/pathogens we do not have immunity to. Remember they brought back "Moon Rocks" as they claim.

#2) The use of Space, to include the Moon is to be for peaceful purposes such as exploration only.
The US recently "blew a hole" in the Moon, which also violates.....

#3) The use of space, moon etc is not to be for hostile acts.... In addition to blowing a hole in the moon, the US has been sending up the spacecraft known as X-37B which is designed for launching weapons from space. (sound peaceful ?)

Thanks for the link. It is nice to learn that we can file claims for damages if any country violates the treaty.



itmaiden

Mmmmmmm.

Acutally this is a very good question.

The answer however is no.

The United Nations outer space treaty of 1967 covered this in the UNITED NATIONS TREATIES AND PRINCIPLES ON OUTER SPACE (article #VIII)

You can download your own copy here:

http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/pdf/pub...STSPACE11E.pdf

[itmaiden]

You wouldn't be in Space Court if you hadn't publicized your find. Didn't you learn anything from the Odyssey who had a BIG PHOTO of their finds in the Tampa Tribune?

I found a few tons of coins once, that the Martians took from Pluto. They were lost in a spaceship wreck on Titan. They sat there for a couple of light years but after I recovered them, the Martians claimed ownership.

It's still in the Space Court on Neptune.

[FISHEYE]

Heres a pic of a sunken UFO wreck on the bottom of one of the great lakes.

[capt dom]

Please make sure that any of you
who may wish to look for alien craft
now I don't mean box trucks in Arizona
or low riders with big trunks, heading north on Pacific Coast Highway

Make sure they are merchant space craft and not military space craft
or the U.S. Attorney's fornicated up, communist staff will find they should be left
undistrurbed.....
else aliens may not respect our sunken war graves and those of
the spains....

[sphillips]

It will all come to light in the new documetary, "It Came from Uranus"

[aquanut]

It will all come to light in the new documetary, "It Came from Uranus"

I heard that documentary is a load of crap.

[sphillips]

It will all come to light in the new documetary, "It Came from Uranus"

I heard that documentary is a load of crap.

I suspect you are right, but only time will tell how it all comes out

[Salvor6]

As long as uranus doesn't have hemmoroids!

[Zephyr]

Does hunting debris from spaceships count as hunting salvage from shipwrecks ?

If so, anyone want to go after this ? Should be worth a pretty piece Investors anyone ?

If it's Space Shuttle debris, I'd say that would be a big no-no.
If you are after the Liberty Bell 7 and it's load of Mercury dimes, too late!
Anything extraterrestrial: Go for it!

[Lucky Eddie]

I invented the new "Star Ship Enterprise" toilet paper.

It Orbits Uranus, looking for Clingons!

Cheers

[White Feather]

That one is going to really tick that Klingon, Wharf, off big time. I'd duck!

[aquanut]

As long as uranus doesn't have hemmoroids!

No HEMmoroids Pete but it does have a few ASSteroids.

[White Feather]

[GopherDaGold]

You all are without a doubt the sickest, strangest, and goofiest people...

That's why we get along so well.