As I sit here, thinking up threads to create, I was wondering to myself, "What happens if Donald Trump tries to build one of his skyscrapers on the Moon?" A bizarre thought naturally, but I get many of those! Who actually owns the land? Is it first come, first served? Are you trespassing? The same question applies to any other planet out there. Surely the earth does not have jurisdiction over trillions and trillions of planets.
Who owns the Moon?
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I do. I own the moon. I bought a deed for it just last year. They guy who sold it to me said he needed the money so the was willing to part with it. He said he had already lost the lease to his office and was out in the street selling off his assets.
It might be hard to find, but there is a collection of short stories by Robert A Heinlein including one that is titled "The Man Who Sold the Moon" - which is both story title and published collection title. I don't remember THAT much about it, but the guy in this titular story didn't actually sell the moon. Instead, he sold people on the idea of going to the moon, which in USA colloquial usage is "selling the moon" as an idea, hence the origin of the title.
It might be hard to find, but there is a collection of short stories by Robert A Heinlein including one that is titled "The Man Who Sold the Moon" - which is both story title and published collection title. I don't remember THAT much about it, but the guy in this titular story didn't actually sell the moon. Instead, he sold people on the idea of going to the moon, which in USA colloquial usage is "selling the moon" as an idea, hence the origin of the title.
I googled it. There are many similar answers, but this one caught my attention - who knew there is such a thing as 'space-law'?
http://theconversation.com/who-owns-the-moon-a-space-lawyer-answers-99974
http://theconversation.com/who-owns-the-moon-a-space-lawyer-answers-99974
The philosophy of the Native American on land ownership was that you only owned the land on which you walked for the duration of the time that you were walking on it. But then, they were mostly comprised of migrating hunter-gatherer cultures with no fixed location, no cultivation, and no belongings that couldn't be carried by horses on a pannier. So maybe until we can routinely walk on the moon and develop some of it, we have no particular claim.
Jen, be nice and share! But my question is, what KIND of cheese? What it if is Limburger? Or worse, German Handkase? For purists, I should have put double-dots over the A to make it A-umlaut, in which case the A would have the same vowel sound as the E in Spanish "queso", and the trailing "e" is pronounced as a schewa, a linguistic name for a lightly voice "uh" sound.
My dad and I used to visit the local supermarket and sample their cheese section. They had pretty good choices. Once a week, he would drop by the biggest market in town and grab a small sample. He would come home with a small box of crackers and a small sample of cheese, which we would try and then discuss. Except for the day he brought home German Handkase. We both took one bite and spit it out. It was fresh, but it was some really pungeunt variety of sheep's milk cheese. Good thing it was a small sample, 'cause it was unpalatable. So we took it to the back door and threw it out for the local animals. Ten minutes later, while looking out a back window, we saw a cat trying to bury it.
My dad and I used to visit the local supermarket and sample their cheese section. They had pretty good choices. Once a week, he would drop by the biggest market in town and grab a small sample. He would come home with a small box of crackers and a small sample of cheese, which we would try and then discuss. Except for the day he brought home German Handkase. We both took one bite and spit it out. It was fresh, but it was some really pungeunt variety of sheep's milk cheese. Good thing it was a small sample, 'cause it was unpalatable. So we took it to the back door and threw it out for the local animals. Ten minutes later, while looking out a back window, we saw a cat trying to bury it.