Customs of the spaceways... or... arr, we killed him to conserve oxygen!

[ffutures]

A friend posted something friendlocked that included a reference to one of the more fascinating series of trials of the 19th century, which established that an ancient "custom of the sea" did not justify murder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens

Now I think that when I eventually get to the space travel section there really needs to be a section on "Customs of the spaceways," possibly including the meat of this case, and maybe, in Churchill's words, "rum, sodomy, and the lash." In a clean-cut American influenced sort of way, of course...

Any suggestions?

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[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks - since its' your post that put this in mind, any other suggestions you care to make will be very gratefully received.

Any intersting piracy cases come your way? There are pirates in the Weinbaum universe...