{"id":2571,"date":"2002-12-11T18:16:17","date_gmt":"2002-12-11T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/11\/space-and-cyberspace\/"},"modified":"2002-12-11T18:16:17","modified_gmt":"2002-12-11T12:46:17","slug":"space-and-cyberspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200212\/space-and-cyberspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Space and Cyberspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><font size = -1>In the 1950s, before space travel was a reality, scholars worried about whether orbiting the Earth would even be legal. Under the law as it existed at that time, each nation&#8217;s sovereignty extended usque ad coelum ? literally &#8220;to the heavens&#8221;. Each nation&#8217;s territory thus consisted of a wedge beginning at the Earth&#8217;s core and continuing infinitely upward and outward.<\/p>\n<p>This posed a number of absurdities, but the greatest difficulty was to orbiting spacecraft. Flying over a nation&#8217;s territory without permission was illegal, perhaps even an act of war. But although aircraft could change course to avoid passing over countries who desired to bar their way, spacecraft ? their orbital paths fixed by the laws of physics ? could not. If any country beneath them (which might mean any country in the world, depending on the inclination of their orbit) objected, it didn&#8217;t matter that everyone else agreed.<\/font><\/cite> <\/p>\n<p>Thus starts an interesting article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5744,5653137&#37;255E7583,00.html\">Glenn  Reynolds <\/a>  in <i>The Australian<\/i>. The point? The experience gained then can be applied while developing international law for the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1950s, before space travel was a reality, scholars worried about whether orbiting the Earth would even be legal. Under the law as it existed at that time, each nation&#8217;s sovereignty extended usque ad coelum ? literally &#8220;to the heavens&#8221;. Each nation&#8217;s territory thus consisted of a wedge beginning at the Earth&#8217;s core and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}