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Scientists are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon's South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice.
NASA Moon Spaceship Running Late, Full of Problems
Originally posted by zeetroyman
I own a plot of land on the moon.
They better not mess up my back yard or ill be suing!
Originally posted by zeetroyman
I own a plot of land on the moon.
They better not mess up my back yard or ill be suing!
Originally posted by -NewSense-
Originally posted by zeetroyman
I own a plot of land on the moon.
They better not mess up my back yard or ill be suing!
Ha. You don't really believe that to be true do you? That can easily be worked around. You have no case.
Originally posted by DeltaNine
I see no way the US government could attack the moon. Right now they're having problems funding Iraq and Afghanistan and the recession won't help things too much.
Oh and NASA is a civilian organisation. They're not business attacking anyone, anything or, erm, any planet.
Originally posted by DeltaNine
reply to post by CryoPyro
Why couldn't it be anything but?
Tristar, I need you to qualify that statement please.
Originally posted by DeltaNine
Essentially it means you need to provide some evidence of your claims since the onus is on you to prove it.
Originally posted by User4372
Also who 'owns' the moon( apart from the clangers) or is it just free territory?
In 1967, the United Nations signed the Outer Space Treaty, which forbids any government from claiming the Moon (or any part of space for that matter). The treaty failed to mention anything about private individuals or corporations, so a second treaty forbidding anyone from claiming ownership of extraterrestrial real estate was proposed. Only a handful of nations (none of them space-faring) signed this treaty. This left a loophole in international law as big as the void of space itself.
Oops.
In 1980, Dennis Hope sent letters to the United Nations, the United States government and the government of the former Soviet Union, informing them that he was officially claiming ownership of all planetary and lunar surfaces (aside from the Earth) in our solar system. He even gave them the opportunity to respond if they had objections, and as crazy as it sounds, he hasn't heard a word from any of them since.
So...for twenty years Dennis Hope has been selling plots on the Moon, Mars and other heavenly bodies - for a pretty reasonable price!