so im reading alot about space tourism and these companies that want to charge you an arm and a leg to take a 20 min plane ride and it got me thinking

if someone were to murder someone (or do something highly illegal) at the point when they leave what is considered Earth and its atmosphere, how would that be prosecuted?

3/26/2008 5:03:19 PM

Up next on lifetime.

3/26/2008 5:03:56 PM

Quote :

"Up next on lifetime."

hahahahhahahahahahhahaha

3/26/2008 5:05:44 PM

well in that case i hope valleri bertenelli or that girl from "Life Goes On" gets murdered before the opening credits are done

3/26/2008 5:08:35 PM

mermaider?

3/26/2008 5:16:13 PM

^my thoughts exactly.

3/26/2008 5:16:28 PM

Space, Murder! It's just a shot away. It's just a shot away.

3/26/2008 5:18:33 PM

ASTRONAUT JONES!

3/26/2008 5:21:14 PM

Why don't you drop out of that green jumpsuit and show me that fat ass?

3/26/2008 5:26:47 PM

not without my daughter

3/26/2008 5:40:48 PM

they would hang you at the Hague

3/26/2008 7:07:07 PM

Space suicides for everyone!

3/26/2008 7:07:59 PM

they'd just send you to spain

3/26/2008 8:10:12 PM

Dial S for Spacemurder

3/26/2008 8:11:41 PM

it's easier to murder them in international waters jeez

3/26/2008 8:13:57 PM

"murder" is a legal term. Technically you would just be killing the fuck out of someone in space.
In which case aliens would have jurisdiction over the event, and I use the word "jurisdiction" loosely because aliens would have much different social structures than us. Just thinking about the complexity of their version of "law" would probably kill you.

3/26/2008 8:24:17 PM

Weyland-Yutani would make you pay for any damages to the ship. After all, it does have a significant dollar value attached to it.

3/26/2008 8:33:04 PM

THEY CAN BILL ME

3/26/2008 8:45:37 PM

Nice.

3/26/2008 8:48:49 PM

There is no international agreement on the vertical extent of sovereign airspace (the boundary between outer space— which is not subject to national jurisdiction— and national airspace), with suggestions ranging from about 30 km (the extent of the highest aircraft and balloons) to about 160 km (the lowest extent of short-term stable orbits). The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale has established the Kármán line, at an altitude of 100 km (62.1 miles), as the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and the outer space, while the United States considers anyone who has flown above 50 miles (80 km) to be an astronaut; indeed descending space shuttles have flown closer than 80 km over other nations, such as Canada, without requesting permission first.[1] Nonetheless both the Kármán line and the US definition are merely working benchmarks, without any real legal authority over matters of national sovereignty.

3/26/2008 8:56:28 PM