On Wed, 18 May 2005 21:09:09 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
Sander Vesik made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

In article . com,
MrPepper11 wrote:
They think that "the United States doesn't own space - nobody owns
space," said Teresa Hitchens, vice president of the Center for Defense
Information ... "Space is a global commons under
international treaty and international law."

So are the oceans, but few people protest the existence of the US Navy.

Folks taking this line need to explain why they think space is different.

Firstly, teh oceans are not really like the space. Secondly, there is no
"economic zone" in space and thirdly, US is not going to nearly the same
extents to deny others access to the oceans, unlike the space.

For a place that the US is supposedly "going to extremes to deny
others access to," there sure is a lot of non-US activity there. But
don't let us interrupt your fantasies, Sander.