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impractical, and about the same legal standing as buying plots of land on the moon. i.e. none.

But I bought an a few acres in the Sea of Tranquility.. SON OF A...

http://www.lunarregistry.com/land/index.shtml

Gotta rush over and buy up that property and maybe put a couple houses and hotels on it. The deeds are available in color coded lots of three, right?

Provide a land granting rights for corporations

Like this guy?

Though I never took his business seriously (and still don't), he was the first reason I thought of for the "legal issues" surrounding moon mining.

At one point, Richard Garriott declared himself to be ruler of the moon, based on him being the only non-government entity to own anything physically on the moon.

Oooooook.

http://www.lunarembassy.com/

http://www.lunarregistry.com/

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/11/20/lunar.land/

One thing's clear: he's about to owe someone, somewhere, for parking.

You're going to have to lower your prices a bit. Considering that I can get 40 acres on the moon for less than $1500, I don't see how this is a good deal.

The key difference, in my opinion, is you purchased the property from somewhere, you didn't have the ability to claim unused land for a nominal registration fee.

Maybe not on earth...
http://www.lunarregistry.com/
http://www.moonshop.com/

Although I think something about a fool and his money applies here...

The Moon is already being sold off.
Better stake your quarter-section homestead claim now before it's all gone!

taking reservations for transatlantic flights in 1880

or selling land on the moon... wait a second!?

this microsoft brain dump is obviously hokum, but in all seriousness, our ever growing hard drive densities, and the ubiquity of cameras nowadays, means the day is not far off when a newborn will be born and given a tiny innocuous camera implant on the side of his head, and his entire life will be videotaped

this is appealing and horrifying on a number of different levels

and it is probably only 5-10 years off

You may not need a permit, but you better buy your landing plot before you get sued! http://www.lunarregistry.com/

I don't think that moon topography will be sold off in lots anytime soon

Don't be so sure.

http://www.lunarregistry.com/

(now if something, this type of shit needs to be stopped)

-m10

They better not hit the sites of any of my future summer homes!

;)

I think that if humans don't destroy themselves first something will happen to Earth naturally. Maybe the government already knows what is going to happen and isn't telling anyone. Maybe the sky will start to fall. The movie deep impact comes into mind.

Exploration is key to survival. You never know what we'll find or how many aliens we'll talk to ;-)

Plus, living on the moon could get expensive, especially if you have to lease the land from some old fart that bought their kids land on the moon and actually demand payment for land use. http://www.lunarregistry.com/

How will they pull this off? They won't. The Zhti Ti Kofft would never tolerate it! Besides, I don't think they really intend to. It is just another plot to scam investors like buying land on the moon. Former California Governor Jerry Brown was nicknamed "moonbeam" for falling for that scam. They are looking for suckers, and there is one born every minute.

Don't you know who owns the moon? Anyone can buy a piece. ;-)

http://www.moonshop.com/

or

http://www.lunarregistry.com/

or

http://www.planetaryinvestments.com/

or yet still

http://www.moonestates.com/

Of course, there are all those people who claim that some royalty paid their great-great-great and so on grand father for some great work by giving them the moon.

I own that bit of the moon, i have a certificate to prove it.

Luckily, there's a treaty about that - namely Article VI of the 1967 U.N. Outer Space Treaty. Although that doesn't mean that all sorts of people have tried to claim ownership:
This link shows that (other than themselves) Dennis Hope (The Head Cheese); the town of Geneva, Ohio; a lawyer in Chile; and Robert R Coles are the other, more public "owners".

Text of relevant treaty: "States Parties to the Treaty shall bear international responsibility for national activities in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, whether such activities are carried on by governmental agencies or by non-governmental entities, and for assuring that national activities are carried out in conformity with the provisions set forth in the present Treaty. The activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty. When activities are carried on in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, by an international organization, responsibility for compliance with this Treaty shall be borne both by the international organization and by the States Parties to the Treaty participating in such organization."

If this landed on property that you had bought (link), can you sue for trespassing?

But what about that property I bought on the moon. The sooner we get there the sooner I can start building on it.

With the discovery of this new moon, I'm offering you the opportunity to get in on the action! Just like the original moon, you can now own your own section of the new moon.

Yeah, their backup plan is to sell land rights like this to other planets. Except that the moon is already taken, so SCO is going to sell plots on Uranus.