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Originally Posted by Reiwa
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If you didn't see, UN/ICJ is forcing UK to give the island chain to someplace called Mauritius. Not that the UK is trying very hard to resist.
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i hadn't, i'm on this news detox and it's fuckin weird.
i knew it was a movement from years ago, mauritius is where the natives that lived on the island ended up, doubt it happens. that's a pretty important spot in the middle of the ocean, unless the thinking is "we're about to do away with manned flight anyway and our drones can glide near space orbit so we don't need it anyway"
the space shuttle landed there once iirc
edit: nevermind
The island was one of 33 emergency landing sites worldwide for the NASA Space Shuttle. None of these facilities was ever used throughout the life of the shuttle program, but were used during the Apollo Program.