On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:07:42PM +0530, Gautam John wrote: > Canada's response... > > "This isn't the 15th century. You can't go around the world and just > plant flags and say 'We're claiming this territory'," said Canadian
Of course you can. It depends on how many guns you have. > Foreign Minister Peter MacKay. > > http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/canada_russia_arctic_canada_col So Canada will send nuc^H^H^H gunships if Russia starts drilling for oil outside of the 320 km zone? They can "mock" and "dismiss" until the cows come home. Instead, they'll just silently claim as much polar real estate at they can. Much more interesting is who gets the most guns in space first. And with space, I don't mean low Earth orbit. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
