Yes, and what incentive, besides the gun, are they [fed govt]
using to get it [shuttle debris] back?
Irrelevant. No incentive is required to expect compliance with the law.
Federal law says is it [the shuttle] is private property. Federal law says you cant tamper with a crash site.
Who says? If you consider space like the sea, then any
abandon wrecks become property of the salvage company!
Space is not like sea so the comparsion is invalid. And the crash happend over land anyway. Even if it is was sea the key word is ABANDONED. The shuttle is not abandoned, you cant claim it as salvage.
>I guess Shuttle Debris might be considered like
>currency. Yes, it is government property, and they will >put me in jail if I deface it, but I don't want to own
>it, just use it!
So you admit it is govt property? Odd, how you want to rationalize selling something that does not belong to you?
The problem with that argument is that governments are not people and should not be afforded the same rights. Most governments think they are Robin Hoods - they take from the producers and give to the non-producers.
So they point a gun at my head, take my the fruits of my labor from me and build a rocket, crash it through my roof and point a gun at me to get back the junk it produced. As a tax payer, the property does belong to me.
> The shuttle is not abandoned, you cant claim it as salvage.
If no one comes looking for it specifically in my building, then it is abandoned.
