who "owns" the moon / Mars???

Precisely although moon/mars are uninhabited (for now) then we can say that noone owns the planets.

The Moon has been claimed by the United States. Just as Christopher Columbus set foot on the New Land and Planted the Spanish flag, the US has set foot on the new world and planted its flag. Nuff said.

im pretty sure that there is a law that no government can own a planet this failed to mention persons so thats why loads of people can buy areas of the moon and now mars i think so i dont think so

The USSR sent six varyingly successful probes to orbit Mars and the current Mars express orbiter was built by the European Space Agency, with some US involvement.





The USSR was the first to get foreign objects on the Martian surface in 1971, albeit not in one piece, when two of their probes launched just over a week apart crashed into Mars. Their Lander launched nine days later was the first to successfully land on Mars and send back data. (So by some peoples logic, that would mean they own it ) They crashed another onto the surface in 1973, and three years later the USA managed their first successful landing. There’s also the UK’s Beagle2 rover on the surface somewhere, probably in bits.

www.explorit.org...

The people selling plots on the moon are selling nothing but a piece of paper. What are they going to do if some country like China builds a base on the moon? Try to sue them or charge them rent. No government will honor their claim, so if you buy a piece it's probably less significant then having a celestial body named after you.

They try to compare it to land claims in the US west. Obviously these folks have never been to the moon so their claim is baseless and invalid.

I looked up the claims in the old west & I came up with Homestead Act of 1862. cut & pasted from here.

"A homesteader had only to be the head of a household and at least 21 years of age to claim a 160 acre parcel of land. Settlers from all walks of life including newly arrived immigrants, farmers without land of their own from the East, single women and former slaves came to meet the challenge of "proving up" and keeping this "free land". Each homesteader had to live on the land, build a home, make improvements and farm for 5 years before they were eligible to "prove up". A total filing fee of $18 was the only money required, but sacrifice and hard work exacted a different price from the hopeful settlers.

A good friend of mine still has land in Alaska that his family passed down to him from their homestead.



[edit on 30-11-2004 by outsider]

"No Government can claim any celestial body as their own because of a treaty signed in 1967. It explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet."


Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies
Bureau of Arms Control


And just which countries signed the treaty? Now ask the Native Americans if the USA honors its treaties!




[edit on 30-11-2004 by valkeryie]

so i am wrong again

o0o well...

were these probes the viking ones???

The bitch is in the details, hehe...

Pretty much any nation could establish a colony on any celestial body as the crux would really be in enforcement...as currently, nobody has space fighters or space marines (or if they do, they aren't advertising them, hehe...)

I usaly dont get into these debates but just so you all know who ownes The moon and mars pluse a few hundred trillion other starts plantes and the intire univers . I do and right at this minit Im wrighting up my bill of sale.
and ill have my deed of owener ship to top it off by next week .
anyone want a nice yellow dwarf it comes fully loaded with 9 or ten if you like to call solares a planet .
and a few million rocks throun in to boot . Starting bid at 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000$ But the investment has the potential of paying back over 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 so rely the price is cheep.
any takers?

Kinglizard you are wrong that treaty was not signed by the three major powers here is the quote and link




And the link... www.technovelgy.com...

I don’t know man. The U.S. Department of state seems to indicate they have signed the treaty.

www.state.gov...

I doent think that the us owns the moon or mars. No one does! But I am not sure but I think Europa has sent something to mars. But they did not get respons back after landing. As I said I am not sure! And I have heard that someone did sell (I doent know what it is on english but) Lot's like a house lot... if you understand. But this was not legal so the man that did this was aressted. But I mean that No one owns the moon or Mars

Hmm i dunno what to believe now maybe its a different treaty but they both sound the same. I think im gonna go with the govt site for now but i'm gonna do more research.

EDIT: I just thought of somthing. Can a treaty be signed but not ratified?

[edit on 30-11-2004 by sardion2000]

According to the court of law, the guy that runs Lunar Registry actually owns the moon. Or is the legal representative to sell the land on the moon. He did this through a law in the United Nations charter. I remember seeing a long interview with him a while back and he explained how he did it and what courts he went through with the lawsuits etc.

So if you ask me, he owns the moon.....I am saving for a nice spot on Venus to work on my tan in the winter. I hear the land on URANUS is cheap....but smelly.

We don’t own a shi-t, earth moon everything its only a matter of being there and controlling, its rather the opposite everything owns us...

As long as that mentality is around ie Who Owns it, we'll never advance.

If history has taught us anything ownership of lands invokes territory wars.

Its ours to share, just like the earth - ideally.

Property ownership is really a figment of the imagination, bound up in laws not truly tested except in corrupt courts.

Logic dictates that Earth owns its moon but Sol owns Earth and Mars.

Who owns Sol?

who the hell is Sol???

the sun???

God???

???

You mean Europe (not Europa) - In which case has been talked about, called Beagle, it probably smacked into the Martian ground.

Untill actual colonization somewhere, You cant own it. (IE: sending a probe to Mars or Americans to the moon, does not make you the owner. However in the future if there are future bases on the moon, and they are planned to be there indeffiniatly then I would say that, Yes, we would own the moon. and by we, I dont mean Americans, I mean the human race.

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Simcity4Rushour,

Actually you are too late, I claimed the Universe and all its contents, not previously claimed in writting, back in 1986.

It's probably not worth the paper it was originally printed on, but it is a publicly recorded document.

Who said i wasn't crazy?
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