• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    I don’t buy that explanation. Why would that dose of radiation be more harmful to a more developed fetus?

    The crew just doesn’t want to deal with a mother spontaneously giving birth, and the airline doesn’t want to deal with the paperwork of taking off with n passengers and landing with n+1. And no-one wants to find out the nationality of a baby born over the Atlantic.

    • SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz
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      3 days ago

      Nationality of somebody born on a plane wouldn’t be a big deal as long as at least one of the parents comes from a country where lex sanguis applies. If lex solis applies (as in the USA) then they could in fact be stateless unless their parents have some other nationality.

      And, if I remember correctly, the captain has the responsibility to record births and deaths on board an airplane. So you might be on to something with the paperwork.

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      3 days ago

      And no-one wants to find out the nationality of a baby born over the Atlantic.

      That actually sounds incredibly fun, as a law nerd!