No, it's not a 50s scifi nor is it Weird Al covering Jackson Browne.

First Space Lawyer Graduates

Surely this will turn out well.

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In the progress of this discussion I shall endeavor to give a satisfactory answer to all the objections which shall have made their appearance, that may seem to have any claim to your attention.

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1

Lawyers in space:

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To me this sounds very legit.
In future there will be some interesting legal actions with the privatisation of space travel in full swing.

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While speech might be free, consequences cost.-Doodler

Imagine the lawyer jokes.

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450,000 lawyers to be sent to mars. 2 to return.

Not bad.

I agree, in fact, even without the privatisation, there is still a matter of interpreting the various pacts and agreements.

Although; that doesn't mean the thought of space-law isn't amusing.

I wonder when we're going to get the first space-suit.

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Lawyers in space? I say space the lawyers!

I've been working on a Heinlein-ian proverb regarding lawyers: "A lawyer is a politician who cooperates with others of his kind to prevent people from working out simple problems by convincing them that the only way they can work out their issues is to work through them (cumshaw) and the court system (which they created) by the laws of the land (which they also created)."

What do you think?

A shark is generally considered one of the higher forms of marine life (aside from killer whales, which are able to attack even great whites with impunity). There's a reason lawyers are sharks are the co-subject of so many lawyer jokes. In deference to the shark, I should say, "shark jokes."

Necessary evil?

No. Those who resort to lawyers have either been brought up to think that's their only resort, or they realize that if they try to contest an issue in a court (presided by a judge who's a former lawyer), they'll fair much better with a lawyer.

LAWYER, n.
One skilled in circumvention of the law.

POLITICIAN, n.
An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.

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Astronaut 1: What do we do about the aliens who just blew up our ship.
Astronaut 2: Call the space lawyer and we'll sue 'em for destroying our property.

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

I think you're looking at lawyers from a different perspective than the one in which they're most useful. I just went through the Social Security process, and a lawyer was an important thing to have there--but even there, it wasn't the most useful place to have one. That would be a criminal trial in which I was innocent.

I don't think lawyers are a necessary evil. That's because I don't think specialization of function is evil.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Lawyers in space sounds like a fine idea so long as you don't bring them back. They'd be able to do less damage to the rest of us there.

In space no one can hear you object.

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I agree, specialization of function is the basis of civilization.Without it we would have to be our own doctors/farmers/soldiers/police officers/craftsman, with . . .mixed, results. Unless you live in some 'noble savage' fantasy, the pre-stone ages sucked.

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the only downside it lead to this.
http://www.awpi.com/Combs/Humor/borg-micro.html
(old startrek joke)

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If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

http://davidsuniverse.wordpress.com/

2 many came back.

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If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

http://davidsuniverse.wordpress.com/

War makes for strange bedfellows. . .

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They managed to combine the two things everybody beats up on. Microsoft and lawyers.

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

As Garrison Keilor has pointed out, it's the worst 95% of lawyers that give the rest a bad name.

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42.7% percent of statistics are made up on the spot

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Lawyers in space? You mean ejected out the airlock with out a suit?

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Precisely. Preferrably dead and frozen beforehand to prevent droplets of blood from endangering the orbital health of real human beings.

Actually, there's nothing wrong with lawyers. You just have to simmer them longer than a good cut.

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