With a new President at the helm, things are quickly changing in Washington and those changes are reverberating across the nation, the globe and even into space. As key members of the administration and the media continue to focus on all the buzzwords that we heard throughout the campaign season, a few events have been [...]
On January 13, 2012, the Quebec City courthouse heard a case brought by a man named Sylvio Langevin. Mr. Langevin filed not one, but several, lawsuits claiming to be the owner of the moon, planets Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, as well as the four larger moons of Jupiter. In addition, he asked the [...]
While we have been focusing on our practices for the last couple of years, monumental changes have been made in the law. These changes will affect us; our clients will want to know about them, and we need to be ready. Until just over a year ago, the entire body of the law governing outer [...]
The NEW plaques have been released for the "Greatest Lawyers in the Galaxy." A hand picked group of attorneys have been selected to join the Intergalactic Bar Association and receive this recognition. Recognition as Greatest Lawyers in the Galaxy indicates that the lawyer has the skill, legal acumen, and fortitude to have earned the title. [...]
International Space Laws were developed in the 1960’s as a way to govern human activities in space. Although air laws had been in place since as early as 1919, prior to the launch of Sputnik 1, Russia’s first satellite, little thought was given to who governed outer space. Conventional thinking was that a nation’s sovereignty [...]
Did you know that there was a time when land owners owned the vertical space that extended from their property all the way up into space! With the advent of air travel, the laws had to change. Governments then decided that land owners would own their land up to 500 feet above ground level and [...]
Commerce secretary nominee says he will protect work of NOAA climate scientists http://ift.tt/2jZW6cf The nominee to be the next U.S. commerce secretary has said he would protect the work of climate scientists at NOAA. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said at a Senate Commerce Committee meeting prior to voting in favor of the nomination of Wilbur [...]
Commerce secretary nominee says he will protect work of NOAA climate scientists http://ift.tt/2jZW6cf The nominee to be the next U.S. commerce secretary has said he would protect the work of climate scientists at NOAA. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said at a Senate Commerce Committee meeting prior to voting in favor of the nomination of Wilbur [...]
Plant Biologists Welcome Their Robot Overlords http://ift.tt/2jRRGlp Old-school areas of plant biology are getting tech upgrades that herald more detailed, faster data collection -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Extraterrestrial Real Estate via Scientific American http://ift.tt/n8vNiX January 25, 2017 at 01:15PM
How Do You Estimate Crowd Size? http://ift.tt/2kiWWOP With the inauguration of the 45th president of the United States this past weekend and the dissenting marches that followed, there’s one type of science that is dominating the news cycle, and that’s crowd science, or the science behind estimating the number of people in [...]
