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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 901951, member: 19065&quot;]At the end of the day, it&#039;s not going to be that cut and dry because the&nbsp; claims to the property are disputed from various nations and ultimately&nbsp; from displaced peoples. </p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the Peaceful Uses of Space law you cited... like any body of&nbsp; rules, they can be written and even agreed upon but if the US cannot&nbsp; physically defend the objects put in space, what&#039;s to stop another&nbsp; nation later on doing as they please. At that later point in time a new&nbsp; or reconstituted nation may already have the power to do as they please&nbsp; without contest for a few hundred years, ignoring the pacts or other&nbsp; previous nations&#039; declarations.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want to get way off topic in&nbsp; some other hypothetical, currently unlikely, scenario filled with <i>what&nbsp; if</i> situations, but it&#039;s not the case that laws once in place when&nbsp; Spain lost the wreck are still the same by definition today any more&nbsp; than Spain possesses the authority and might to enforce them in the&nbsp; manner they once did, never forgetting the dispute over stolen resources&nbsp; and cultural theft that the indigenous peoples have raised against&nbsp; Spain and by extension with Odyssey for further complicity and&nbsp; possession of removed cultural property.</p><p><br /></p><p>Repatriation of the property to the original peoples seems unlikely&nbsp; anytime now or in the future, but it doesn&#039;t clear the path for&nbsp; stronger, standing nations making the rules to discount their past&nbsp; actions and make modern concessions for their own benefit or profit.&nbsp; It&#039;s a double standard in an era when repatriation of art, property and&nbsp; cultural artifacts are contested and being repatriated for losses&nbsp; that occurred from a people forcefully displaced by a more powerful&nbsp; nation, such as happened to persecuted peoples in the second world war&nbsp; due to the actions of Germany nor are vast amounts of cultural&nbsp; objects held in foreign museums that were once <i>bought</i> or removed&nbsp; off the Acropolis legitimately being held rather than returned to&nbsp; Greece following their claims to the property clearly theirs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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