Even if you never thought to ask who owns the Moon, you can’t deny it’s an interesting question. Not counting international waters, there aren’t many places on Earth that don’t belong to somebody. It just makes sense that someone would own the Moon too, right? So, who’s the rightful owner of the lunar landscape? It turns out people have been claiming the Moon long before anyone set foot on it. One such claim dates all the way back to 1756, when a man by the name of Aul Juergens received our Moon as a gift from the Prussian King, Frederick the Great. But are there any more recent claims to Lunar domination?
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TIMESTAMPS:
The man who received the Moon as a gift 0:35
What the Outer Space Treaty bans 2:12
How does one actually go about claiming the Moon? 3:45
Lunar tax 4:10
Celebrities who purchased Lunar land 5:31
Can governments claim land in space? 6:01
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SUMMARY:
- Plenty of other people have made claims over the years, but the most prolific, by far, is an American businessman by the name of Dennis Hope.
- In 1967, the US, UK and the Soviet Union signed a treaty establishing rules on how outer space was to be used.
- This treaty bans the use of certain nuclear activities in space and prohibits countries from establishing military bases on the Moon, or any other place in the Solar System.
- Effectively, the treaty turned space into the equivalent of international waters, a place anyone is allowed to go, but no country can claim.
- Hope took note of how the text of the treaty uses terms like “nations” and “states,” but never explicitly mentions individuals and corporations.
- The point is that for as little as twenty dollars plus shipping, handling and what Hope calls “lunar tax,” you too can have your very own chunk of the Moon.
- Some of Hope’s customers clearly have deep pockets and are said to include the former presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Regan and George Bush senior. Also among his customers are celebrities such as Barbara Walters, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and Nicole Kidman.
- When China announced its intentions to one day establish a colony of their own on the Lunar surface, Dennis Hope was none too happy.
- Governments cannot, under any circumstances, claim land in space.
- Something only belongs to you when the laws of the country you live in define it as yours.
- What that means for Dennis Hope and his customers, is that the only way their claims could ever be considered valid was if his Galactic Government was recognized as its own nation.
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