Who "Owns" Mars

Jokester · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:47

Ultimately, call me a cynic, but who ever owns the biggest space lasers will own it.

Jokester

Spacky · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:48

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Hmm ,so in the future we'll all be using the "Bank of Mars" as a tax haven, seeing as no government can lay claim to it?

The planet pluto will be notorious for ipod vr 2010 scams

[DOD]Asprilla · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:48

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Hmm ,so in the future we'll all be using the "Bank of Mars" as a tax haven, seeing as no government can lay claim to it?

Providing you spend less than 90 days on Earth, yes. Given the travel time that shouldn't be hard.

CChrisca · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:49

WS_TailGunner said:
bagsies mars!

its now mine, and you cant have it.

I'll give you 3 Milky Ways and my last Rolo for it

Rosbif · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:49

if you have the biggest guns you can be the owner of whatever you want... who will stop you from enforcing your claim?

CChrisca · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:52

Rosbif said:
if you have the biggest guns you can be the owner of whatever you want... who will stop you from enforcing your claim?

Careful, you don't want Condi coming round to sort you out - she frightens me and thats just when she smiles

Pumpkinstew · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:54

Rosbif said:
if you have the biggest guns you can be the owner of whatever you want... who will stop you from enforcing your claim?

Dan Dare?

Kerplunk · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:54

They must get an internet connection established up there tbh.

See if we can ping Mars. Ha.

:cool:

pinkacidbootson · 25 Jul 2006 at 16:12

Chuck Norris seems the most likely candidate to own Mars.

Zip · 25 Jul 2006 at 16:14

Johanson said:
Chuck Norris seems the most likely candidate to own Mars.

I have more talent in my middle finger then chuck norris has all up

Le_Petit_Lapin · 25 Jul 2006 at 16:15

Kerplunk said:
They must get an internet connection established up there tbh.

See if we can ping Mars. Ha.

Can't wait until we can ping Uranus personally.

William · 25 Jul 2006 at 16:23

Jokester said:
Ultimately, call me a cynic, but who ever owns the biggest space lasers will own it.

Jokester

Yup, so basically when America get there, they will own it.

Or we can look forward to some G-Police action. :cool:

The_TailGunner · 25 Jul 2006 at 16:26

William said:
Or we can look forward to some G-Police action.

that game rocked

Kerplunk · 25 Jul 2006 at 19:10

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Can't wait until we can ping Uranus personally.

*Badam tish!*

_PD_ · 25 Jul 2006 at 19:25

Well theres a guy that owns the moon...

IIRC in the Cold War, the US and Soviets signed an agreement which said no country could ever claim any orbiting body within the solar system.

Therefore some chap said "OK, if no country can own it, I'll have it". And they all went "oooooh...... err......" and no-one could oppose him. Therefore he laid claim to it, and it's him that you buy pieces of the moon from today.

So I guess that either;

1) They ammended the agreement so that no-one else could lay claim to anything else.

2) Someone else has already claimed the other planets.

v2^ · 25 Jul 2006 at 19:36

Whos to say we ( Humans ) would be the 1st to it, for all we know some alian lifeform might already be there.

We aint the only living species in this huge galaxy.

iraiguana · 25 Jul 2006 at 19:49

well even after u sorted out ure sat connection to internet the pings would be unplayable so meh will stay where the servers are

Atomic · 25 Jul 2006 at 21:55

Another question: What happens if a alien race has already claimed Mars?

For all we know there could be a Star Trek like Federation in existance.

v2^ · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:00

Atomic said:
Another question: What happens if a alien race has already claimed Mars?

For all we know there could be a Star Trek like Federation in existance.

Ahem

I agree 100%

v2^ said:
Whos to say we ( Humans ) would be the 1st to it, for all we know some alian lifeform might already be there.

We aint the only living species in this huge galaxy.

msdl28712 · 26 Jul 2006 at 08:33

In 1980, Dennis Hope sent letters to the United Nations, the United States government and the government of the former Soviet Union, informing them that he was officially claiming ownership of all planetary and lunar surfaces (aside from the Earth) in our solar system. He even gave them the opportunity to respond if they had objections, and as crazy as it sounds, he hasn't heard a word from any of them since.

What do you reckon happended why nobody responded.

1 nobody actually took the letter serious
2 That nobody could actually stop him

But i dont understand why he didnt send a letter to our Queen i thought she owned everything