If no-one does actually own it then I'll have it.
2006-12-05 03:26:13 · 20 answers · asked by the gay bear 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
i have a certificate that entitles me to one acre of land on the moon,you can buy them as gifts for people and they are genuine.
2006-12-05 03:29:32 · answer #1 · answered by Alfred E. Newman 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
At this point in time no one owns the moon. It's simply impossible to physically defend any claim made. If I build a private space ship, get to the moon, and build a settlement on your property, what are you going to do, send the galactic police after me? How are they going to get there? And by the time they do I may have the proper defenses set up to repel them.
Initially in the future, when space travel is cheap and safe, governments will own the moon and other habitable objects. After a while they will sell property to private interests for residential or commercial purpose. Unless some company whose selling property now gains technologically over the governments of the world and gets there first, any piece of paper you purchase that states you own a piece of the moon isn't worth the kindling needed to burn it with.
2006-12-05 05:34:27 · answer #2 · answered by albion53151 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can only buy anything legally. from its` owner. Presently no one owns the moon. In times to come that may not be so. Fortunately, one thing that man has agreed on, is that not everything in this world (or out side of it ) is up for grabs. For example the Artic and Antarctic poles, although several countries have `weather` stations in these areas, no one is allowed to take rights of ownership over the land, in theory the same is practised with regard to the moon and to outer space.
2006-12-05 03:43:06 · answer #3 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know how much of this answer is a joke but its a very good question. Nasa putting a permanent base on the moon is a fairly controversial move given America's actions in recent years. It might be nicer if the base was a combined effort between several nations. The US has blocked several moves to ban the militarization of space. United Federation of Planets? If only! It seems different spacecraft will still represent divided nationalistic nations of Earth. Let's hope its a purely scientific mission.
2006-12-05 03:33:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
TMOTM - The Man On The Moon
2006-12-05 03:29:45 · answer #5 · answered by ljdynamique2 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No one owns the moon and you are certainly welcome
to go up there and claim it if you can...
2006-12-05 03:34:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
would have to be the person getting mooned owns it, as opposed to the person doing the mooning.
2006-12-05 03:36:19 · answer #7 · answered by j313099 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i own the moon
2006-12-05 14:10:10 · answer #8 · answered by collene d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I owned it up until 1483... then I lost t in a card game. Never gamble with the king of Prussia...
2006-12-05 03:34:07 · answer #9 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
By international treaty, no one owns it. People are selling deeds but it's probably the same idiots who sell stars and of course, someone actually sends them money.
2006-12-05 03:33:34 · answer #10 · answered by Gene 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
International Right To Claim Law states:
"The Emissary of a Sovereign Nation that Plants it's Flag Shall Claim all"
When the Flag(s) was planted ... by colonists on Earth no one ever cared that the natives already living there a thousand years said ..."Ouch"!
2006-12-05 03:33:31 · answer #11 · answered by baltic072 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋