When people hear for the first time that I am a lawyer practicing and teaching something called "space law," the question they ask most frequently, often with a big smile or a twinkle in the eye, is: "So tell me, who owns the moon?" [Moon Master: An Easy Quiz for Lunatics]
Of course, claiming new national territories had been very much a European habit, applied to non-European parts of the world. In particular the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the French and the English created huge colonial empires. But while their attitude was very Europe-centric, the legal notion that planting a flag was an act of establishing sovereignty quickly stuck and became accepted worldwide as part and parcel of the law of nations.
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8 comments:
we've never been on the moon. it was fake.
Our very lives depend on it,but no one owns it.
Joe, as the editor, just for fun, you should have added, "what is wrong with the above picture?"
First, it isn't Buzz, for Apollo 11 had no lunar river and secondly, this is a pic of James Irwin, Apollo 15. BTW I actually have this picture autographed by him when my Dad met him in the mid 80's at a business meeting.
10:12, Go to an observatory and ask them to show you the rover we left behind, then come tell us it was a slide show you saw.
Capricorn 1!
IIRC, The Man in the Moon holds title to the lunar real estate :)
The moon is America, and when the Space Force is operational we will defend that claim with our lives!! MAGA!!
God owns it
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