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U.S. Department of State Says Spacesuits Are Weapons
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 Who
would have guessed that you need the blessing of the U.S. Department of State if you want to
make and sell spacesuits? Yep, spacesuits are classified as weapons since, by bureaucratic logic
(yeah, a non sequitur), if you have the capability to
attain a presence at an altitude that requires a spacesuit, you can be a strategic threat to
the nation. Here is a story about a startup company in Brooklyn, NY, that found out the hard
way about the
spacesuit-weapon requirement. There is a rapidly growing demand for functional-yet-stylish
spacesuits for safeguarding wealthy space tourists who will soon be blasting off to the top
of Earth's atmosphere where space officially begins (at about
50 miles / 80 km). BTW, I tried finding the official policy on spacesuit production
the Department of State website, but their
search engine keeps failing - must be busy deleting files on the
Benghazi massacre.Posted 2012 |
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