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zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 8 Jul 2005
19:27 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Ok, that's a good one. There's this joint on the inet that sells land on the Moon. I'm serious and this really cracked me up. lol
Check it out for fun. Guess someone is going to cash in on Moon land now too. :)
http://www.moonlotsforsale.com/
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JcCorp
Probe
Posted: 9 Jul 2005
03:35 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | Lol, nice. Though, does that mean that that company just claimed ownership of the entire moon? That's mean. I can imagine it now:
"Wow, I just landed on the moon!"
"I'm sorry, sir, but you are under arrest for trespassing on private property." |
TI Freak
Probe
Posted: 9 Jul 2005
06:23 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | This is rediculous... I could almost see it if we were colonizing the moon, but we aren't... |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 9 Jul 2005
09:17 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | They are using the legal basis of homesteading. So their reasoning is that since nobody else has claimed it, they can sell sections of land that you can "claim." They did say that they told the US government that they were going to do it, and since they weren't answered, it must be okay.
Edit: I used "they" too often in the past sentence.
[Edited by allynfolksjr on 09-Jul-05 18:17] |
korkow
Ultralisk
Posted: 9 Jul 2005
09:21 GMT
Total Posts: 465 | Actually Nikky... I WORK at a homestead ina living historical site. Where I have to dress up like a homesteader and everything (It's fun!) and I know that the homestead act went out of effect sometime during the 1980's, therefore, this is probably illegal. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 9 Jul 2005
09:23 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Well, "they" was actually just one guys who claimed the Moon like 27yrs ago and it ehem "a legal owner" of it now. He then started this company and sells land on it. I suppose the moon can be colonized but there just really isn't a whole lot of use for it since they didn't find much useful resources on it. And somebody has to fund that whole thing too. That'd be kinda cool to see a Moon colony though.
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greenorange
Goliath
Posted: 9 Jul 2005
10:14 GMT
Total Posts: 199 | Yeah I ran into this a while ago as well. I showed my parents, and they started cracking up. Meh. Not suprised at anything on the internet anymore. |
lord_bakotl
Dragoon
Posted: 10 Jul 2005
19:29 GMT
Total Posts: 70 | That reminds me of a Heinlien story I read once about a guy who bought the moon. An interesting question was brought up in the story; Was the moon already owned by different countries at different times when it would be passing through their airspace (even if it was x miles from the ground of the country)? |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 10 Jul 2005
19:32 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | And if you want to be picky, the US did actually send people to walk on the moon, and planted the flag, so isn't that a form of claiming it? It isn't valid, I know, but a discussion point.
[Edited by allynfolksjr on 11-Jul-05 04:33] |
JcCorp
Probe
Posted: 11 Jul 2005
13:12 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | I hereby claim all unclaimed areas on the surface of the moon in the property of the Joe C. Corporation (JcCorp(TM)). For partial ownership rights of said land, please send me a PM for more details and how much money you have. I will need it all.
<_<
Meh, it was worth a shot. |
Xero Xcape
Marine
Posted: 11 Jul 2005
13:19 GMT
Total Posts: 29 | Hey Allyn I found a bug... When you click "reply" and just start typing you can type where it says "Post a Reply" mine now says "okay hehehejhjkhfjkdshfjkdhsfjhdjksfhkjdshfjkhdsjkfhjkdshfjhdsjkfhkdjshfjks
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@Jc - I claim Mars... in the name of "Crescent Door Incorperated"
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allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 11 Jul 2005
14:33 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | Yeah, we know about that one. It doesn't occur in opera, so I'm not too concerned. |
lord_bakotl
Dragoon
Posted: 11 Jul 2005
20:03 GMT
Total Posts: 70 | The US may have landed a man on the moon, but wasn't it the Soviets who tried to paint the moon red by crashing probes and satellites with red glitter and such onto the surface? If so, then Russia might have some claim on the places where their "red tide" hit. |
alex10819
Wraith
Posted: 12 Jul 2005
09:40 GMT
Total Posts: 507 | >>The US may have landed a man on the moon, but wasn't it the Soviets who tried to paint the moon red by crashing probes and satellites with red glitter and such onto the surface? If so, then Russia might have some claim on the places where their "red tide" hit.
wdf? i never heard about that one... the soviets had issues just getting probes that far! hmm... sounds like a bad action movie... |
JcCorp
Probe
Posted: 12 Jul 2005
13:16 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | >>Yeah, we know about that one. It doesn't occur in opera, so I'm not too concerned.<< Yeah, I think I actually pointed that out somewhere. I can find it in just a sec. HERE. In fact, even then it wasn't the first time. Oh well, its funny to see. |
