The word cult is not even mentioned in the article at all.

You have a good argument there

So your argument is national boundaries should be completely dependent on surveillance methods.

Why not make overflights valid in that case? Orbital or not has no bearing on surveillance ability. Why did it be different monitoring at 50 feet or 60,000 feet or 400,000 feet?

Because of the ability to shoot it down? Russians couldn't touch our U2's for 5 years and could probably fly over Cuba to this day. We've shot a missile from an F15. The only thing stopping satellites from shooting each other is a weak treaty and the definition of space. Maybe that's the crux of the issue then, the definition of space where we can uphold a treaty, not what distances are technically unlikely to be used force against. Once we start shooting satellites down the new definition of political space would be Lagrange points and solar orbits.

The point isn't to define boundaries based on current tech but to draw a line in the sand internationally where we will no longer engage in violence. China and Russia have already made it clear multiple times they have little respect for "international" agreements.

Title:

> Where does space really begin? Chinese spy balloon highlights legal fuzziness of 'near space'

You:

> Its not fuzzy at all. You are either in orbit, or you are not.

Also you:

> When were we trying to define space? We are talking about valid surveillance tactics.

Tell me again how you can be suborbital beyond the karman line and it be fuzzy if you're legally in space because the megapixels of the camera in the tourists hands is low.

What does smashing into us territory have to do with how we define space? In fact suborbital means you're going to smash anyway. In fact, altitude has 0 to do with where you land if there's no horizontal vector.

I could throw a go pro over a prison yard and get surveillance capability. Suborbital apogee can be any altitude.

Being in orbit has no impact on your location in space when suborbital exists

Rutan's Space Ship 1 went to space in a suborbital hop. FAA hands out space wings for suborbital flight

That would be a function of technology as SSTO ramjets are developed

Meta research is an enormous field.

We're generating more science than we have the capacity to decipher as a whole nor dispense in practical nor culturally significant ways. Someone recently made an ai to read thousands of studies and offer a way to access the data on human terms but it wasn't quite successful.