So I asked ManLosch a question yesterday during breakfast about citizenship. Here was the conversation that took place:
me: "So, let's think hypothetically ok? Let's say a kid was born in Antarctica. What would his/her citizenship be?"
manlosch: "That wouldn't happen."
me: "Did you not hear me say HYPOTHETICAL?"
manlosch: "Yeah but that still can't happen. They won't allow it."
me: "Who is 'they'?"
manlosch: "I dunno. Hospitals and law enforcement and important people."
me: "But just think hypothetically for a minute. Let's say it was for research. And a researcher and her husband got it on and she got pregnant. And she gave birth while on Antarctica. Would the kid's citizenship default to the parents?"
manlosch: "No." (Then he told me something about John McCain and where he was born and how something something something Darkside, I don't quite remember)
me: "But why can't the kid be Antarctican?"
manlosch: "That's not even real."
me: "So he'd be American?"
manlosch: "No, he'd be Czechoslovakian."
Sometimes it takes awhile, but I can get ManLosch engaged in some pretty pointless discussions with me. :)
Pointless discussions? Apparently not...I've looked into it, and at least 10 children have been born in West Antarctica. Emilio Marcos Palma was the first child born in Antarctica in 1978 to Argentine parents. There we go, little factoid for the day, and I stand humbly corrected :(
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