https://xkcd.com/2883

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They didn’t bring us a gift, but considering the kinetic energy of a bottle of wine at orbital speed, that’s probably for the best.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This assumes that old thing that your property goes straight up so you also claim ownership of the airspace, as written by Lawrence Lessig in his excellent book “Free Culture”.

    In that case, on more than one occasion I’ve had several dozen people over for dinner, as a commercial airliner flew overhead.