Odd debate of the day

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22631

If you were an astronaut and you killed someone on a space station, could you be prosecuted for it?

Dugoutpaddy · **Joined:** Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:23 am **Posts:** 1772

Yes
but only if he wasn't the driver :grin:

Mister Ed · **Posted:** Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:44 am

Master of Disguise wrote:

if you killed someone on a space station you would just push them off into space......and keep quiet. :grin:

but then wouldn't you get done for littering?

the minute you shut the capsules hatch there would be a knock at the hatch and an intergalatic community officer on his space bike would slap a fixed penalty notice in your hand!

Hawklord · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm **Posts:** 3115

The answer's bound to be in here:

Abd remember

Don't Panic

Hawklord · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm **Posts:** 3115

Great seeing that again OSP.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22631

I was reading something earlier which is where the question came from. There is a convention wherein no part of space can be claimed by any nation no matter how many US flags they might plnt on the moon. It follows that without national or international legislation there are no laws in space so you can't be prosecuted. That said, some countries do have laws where a national can be charged with offences that were committed outside their borders. We have on which involves paedophile crimes for example.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:59 pm

Have you been reading this?? Strangely enough I did just this morning.

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? ... 07/1644216

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22631

Not that article but something similar. Spooky :shock:

Spender · **Posted:** Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:31 pm

Space stations are national territory so the minute you space walk into them you'd get done under the law of the country that owned it. Unless you were a Metropolitan Police Officer having shot someone nine times in the head and then you'd get done for littering or summat, and your gaffer would say he knew nowt about it until seven weeks later.

Mind they'd have a problem finding the body but it never bothered Fred West. :grin:

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

Mr I wrote:

I was reading something earlier which is where the question came from. There is a convention wherein no part of space can be claimed by any nation no matter how many US flags they might plnt on the moon. It follows that without national or international legislation there are no laws in space so you can't be prosecuted. That said, some countries do have laws where a national can be charged with offences that were committed outside their borders. We have on which involves paedophile crimes for example.

i think i remember something along these lines over Antartica or the Arctic keeping it for wild life etc
yet we are busy slicing them up quicker than the ice can melt

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