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I hate the move to rename it as well but... Good luck with that. I can't see why any court would even entertain such a suit.
this suit pertains to google's renaming of the entire body of water instead of just the bits over the u.s. continental shelf; or essentially the u.s. eez--which is no more than 200nm from land, less where it runs into another nation's eez.
that region extends roughly due east from the southern tip of texas to 200nm from flordia's gulf coast, then south until it runs into cuba's eez where it's then split between the two countries.
But what law has been broken? Google can label it "The Gulf of Space-X Debris" and violate no law.
Corrections should be submitted to Google naming it "The Gulf of Trump Can Lick My Taint."
Ask the article's author. They could have linked to a PDF court filing but of course they didn't, because they suck at journalism.
200 nanometres is 0.002 centimetres. That converts to 0.00078 inches (a bit over 3/4096", if you prefer fractional representation). Surely that can't be correct.
Pretty sure they're using nm to represent nautical miles..
Nautical miles have the symbol of NM or nmi. Maybe M in certain circles.
I made the exact same mistake in my head before remembering the word nautical exists.
Sorry for being pedantic but, regardless of your misread of the nm unit, 200 nanometers are 0.00002 centimeters. 1 centi is 1e⁻², and 1 nano is 1e⁻⁹.
Because they are operating in Mexico and are subject to Mexican law.
It’s a petty thing that eats the available bandwidth of Trump’s lawyers. I’m all for it. Overload them with court cases.
You say that but there are some political judges that would jump at the chance to win against this one though