At 04:57 AM 3/11/03 +0100, Anonymous wrote: >On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:52 am, Tim May wrote: > >> Neither MegaCorp nor anyone else has property rights to the air. > >So rights only apply to land ? >What's the frigg'in difference between dirt and air. It's all atoms.
The difference is summarized as solid vs. fluid. There are similar constraints on e.g., messing with the water from a (liquid) stream going through your (solid) land. When solid turns liquid, it gets messy, and lawyers and soil geologists get involved :-)
