How can they sell land on the Moon ???

I have a hectare of land in the Sea of Tranquility if anyone's interested. Bought it off a bloke called Bob on Ebay. It has outline planning permission for a lunar observatory. He threw in Alpha Centauri and a small asteroid called Blair-Brown 69 in the Horses Ass nebula.

I'll throw in the lot plus two used lunar modules (tops are missing) (one needs tyres) and a couple of bleached stars and stripes for ten bucks all in.

No offers. No tyre kickers. And, please, no more time wasters....
 
semi-pro waster said:
It is somewhat akin to the old (and now discontinued) practice of registering and selling plots of land that were too small to use - some enterprising individual would buy a plot of land at a desireable location and then subdivide it further selling off the smaller portions for an inflated fee - this then gave purchasers the chance to say "yeah, I own a some land in Beverly Hills" or whatever it was.
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Hahaha, yeah I signed-up for that a few years back... got some land in some ****-splat little town in California (not Beverly Hills unfortunately) for free. I'd forgotten all about it until now. Might have to trawl through my emails to find the details.
 
Well I think the story is that the treay mentions that no country can own and do things on the moon, but apparently the loophole is that it doesn't mention individuals. So apparently some bloke claimed it for himself and now selling plots on it is already a millionaire. I'm pretty sure that it's not something that is legally binding and push comes to shove the governments will find a way of making them all into useless bits of paper.
 
Vasquez said:
can't you buy bits of land in scotland that make you a lord? I'm sure a friend did that.
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You can certainly buy titles of estates that have disappeared or fallen into disuse of sorts (Chris Eubank buying the title of Lord of the Manor of Brighton for instance), I'm not so sure about the necessity of buying land to go with it as the title itself can be hereditary as a form of heritable property.
 
where can i purchase some moon land then ? I have an interest in this flats need to be built somewhere why not on the moon :p
wonder how much it costs
 
I thought the trick here was that it states no one country but does not mention an individual. It would never be upheld so they are selling you expensive pieces of paper.
 
Chris1712 said:
Damn right. At least ive somewhere to go when we have to leave this planet! You'll all be rushing around trying to find the last high rise flats on the moon while ill be chilling in my acre. I might of got like a sweet mountain section or something with nice views :p.
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hopefully there's no ****** :(
 
iraiguana said:
I thought the trick here was that it states no one country but does not mention an individual. It would never be upheld so they are selling you expensive pieces of paper.
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SiD the Turtle said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

In short, no one owns the Moon, it belongs to all mankind.
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As stated in the link from SiD the land is res communis so no-one can own it yet everyone owns it or more correctly everyone has the right to use it. It works on a similar principle to that governing the High Seas (the areas beyond 200 nautical miles from land* as the edge of an Exclusive Economic Zones) whereby no-one can lay a claim to it but all can use it.

So in essence you are right, it is simply a piece of paper and a nice novelty item.

*Less can be claimed but there isn't much point in limiting yourself unless your EEZ butts up against someone elses.
 
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