September 15, 2024

Legal questions prompted by a headline of the moment

Webb telescope peers into our galaxy's outskirts, sees stunning scene




Which begs the question: Just how DO you try a telescope one million miles away for being a peeping tom, in areas that aren't even your own solar system?

Or how 'bout: is it a crime to be a peeping tom on an event that happened millions of years in the past, but you can only see it just now for relativistic reasons?