Re: Piracy in space will be a problem in the future !!!

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From: Joann Evans
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:34

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Karl-Hugo Weesberg wrote:
> 
> More and more valuable satellites, spaceships and space-stations will
> enter space.
> 
> In a few years, space-pirates will start to ambush spaceships and to
> steal satellites.
> 
> So we should create the space-police NOW, before it's too late.

   'Pirates' need spaceships too. You need a world where they're common,
available (presumably used) etc. That's more than a 'few years' away...

   And just what would you do with a stolen satellite? Merely being
expensive and valuable doesn't mean you can easily 'fence' it and
translate it into cash. Suppose you could steal a 747, for example?
Assuming you're not a terrorist, then what? What do you do with it?
Where do you go with it? Whom can you possibly sell it to? How can you
possibly ransom it back to the owner?

-- 

   You know what to remove, to reply....

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