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eBay sellers already hawking "shuttle debris"

Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 20:00:09 -0500
To: politech@politechbot.com
Subject: FC: eBay sellers already hawking "shuttle debris"
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>

[Legal question: If a piece of "shuttle debris" falls on my land, does it 
become my property? I assume not. --Declan]

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From: "Hiawatha Bray" <watha@monitortan.com>
To: <declan@well.com>
Subject: RE: More on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster earlier today
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:50:58 -0500

I just got off the phone with eBay.  They confirmed to me that some people
have posted "shuttle debris" for sale.  The auctions for this stuff get
pulled as soon as they appear, he said.

Hiawatha Bray
Boston Globe




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