Would you buy a piece from that guy who's made $9 million from selling it off.Nice work if you can get it!! lol
2007-04-27 06:35:30 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
What a scam. You can try to buy all the property on the moon you want, but there are several principles involved that work against it.
1. The old addage,"possession is 9/10ths of the law". If someone could privately fund trips to the moon, and build and operate a moon base (even for profit if that was possible), that person's ownership would carry far more weight than any piece of paper here on earth.
2. Certain space treaties signed by the US can be interpreted to disallow any 'land ownership' on or of moons, asteroids, and planets -- other than earth. The scammers who try to sell you a piece of the moon or whatever either don't tell you that or they 'interpret' the treaty to their advantage.
3. Until someone can actually *get* to the property in question and put some useful value on it, it is not real property (as in *real* estate) by any definition that I know of, so any real property contract or sale should be moot.
It's kind of like selling *land* in the middle of the ocean.
4. Even from a speculative viewpoint, the speculator will probably never realize his property in his lifetime, nor would his estate. Should someone else walk on his chunk of the moon in the future, how would he enforce no-trespassing or no-gathering-of-minerals? There's no constable/police up there, there are no posted no-trespassing signs or no fences to mark the speculator's land.
Again -- whoever has the money to get there first...
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2007-04-27 07:02:28 · answer #1 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is no. And neither does anyone really own land on earth either because of our fiat money system.
There is a saying By Aaron Russo that goes like this: " If you were to take away all the money and assets of the world from the central bankers then they would create enough money in one day out of thin air to buy the whole world back again."
Basically you don't own anything.. your a landless peasant. You may think you own it but you don't. A piece of paper is as worthless as the money that is printed on it.
2007-04-30 17:30:52 · answer #2 · answered by mike s 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one!! as there is no country in this world can lay claim to any part of the moon. When the time comes to do that a whole international treaty would have to be drawn up and what a meeting of nations that will be but no one alive to day will see it
2007-05-01 05:04:32 · answer #3 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lunarregistery claims to be able to sell moon land but it is my opinion that personally I would be wary of the legality of it noting sites like www.scambusters.org/landonthemoon.html. Sounds like there could be problems but it is an interesting gimmick and would be great if legal as a gift to be handed down.
2007-05-01 04:47:25 · answer #4 · answered by mike453683 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with mike s that we do not anything , least of all any piece of land on this planet. The idea of ownership is laughable if only because Nature's nemesis in the form of certain end to all life is the final arbiter of our existence. It is a mirage we have created in ourselves because of the persistence of our ego, and we pretend that we are the masters of stage in this short drama. It is a continuing play and Nature makes fools of all without exception. We never seem to realise that we, each of us, are born because we cannot help it, that we grow up in spite of ourselves and we die away whether we like it or not!!! What a colossal pantomime this thing called ", me and mine" is. Thanks for making me feel so small.
2007-05-01 20:43:24 · answer #5 · answered by polymath 1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well actualy no one owns the moon and no one can own the moon. It is just like the people who sell stars it is a SCAM.
2007-04-27 09:47:14 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Smith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody owns any part of the Moon. Not legally.
2007-04-27 06:42:52 · answer #7 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is reminiscent of the people who sell stars, nobody can do that, and to even fall victim to such a scam only proliferates such behavior
2007-05-04 03:16:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one owns it. I wouldn't buy a bit either. I wish i'd thought of selling it though. Isn't it amazing how many gullible fools are out there.
2007-04-27 07:05:47 · answer #9 · answered by Wildman 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i heard that actor sean biggerstaff (who plays oliver wood in the harry potter movies) owns an acre of the moon. he got it as a birthday present
2007-04-27 06:41:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋