Free-Market Fans Encourage Rush for Off-Planet Real Estate

If one day they sell land on the moon, I think they all sell the 5 Lagrangian points in outer space. Hey buddy, would you like to by some space, lol? Seem like an odd question and yet technically speaking those zones should be hot commodities for Earth, too.

Of course, that arriving to the point of who owns it in the first place, still sqauating rights I think have some technical merits of ownership in this case.

If you can plot a zone of and survive there say 1 year, the land is yours.

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Who ever gets there and starts colonizing....and can keep it....it's theirs. If they can sustain themselves up there, who's going to tell them it isn't? The UN? HA!

Oh no this won't end badly...

I'm sorry but this is stupid first we won't even be close to having the tech to make a self-sustaining colony on moon or any other planet. We have only the most basic of idea’s right now and it will take years to work out the bugs and more than likely untold human deaths along the way. The fact is simple cost of shipping the everyday needs of the people working there will far outweigh the profit of whatever is made there.

It would take easily 25 to 50 years before any colony even brakes let alone makes a profit. Assuming we even figure out how to construct things in low gravity which we haven’t even began to do.

This isn’t even getting into the fact of how china or any other country will react to this. Blindly yelling I claim this land will just lead to death and war more so when the only thing keeping these colonists alive is a thin metal shell. What do you think will happen on earth when a whole colony of people gets wiped out?

I don’t know but I can tell you it won’t be purity for anyone.

We don’t live in the 1400’s anymore; we live in the post Atomic bomb world where almost every country has the power to wipe the rest of humanity off the face of the planet. The only way this could work is if some governing body set up by all countries worked it out which isn’t going to happen anytime soon.

Maybe that will give us the time to really be ready to do it.

@ dex draco

a governing body set up by all countries (making just one country) would be the quickest way never to see this happen.....they'd be too busy controling every aspect of life on earth they'd never get off the planet......though if such a governing body were to start forming it might motivate people enough to get off the planet at any cost to avoid being under the control of said government.

You know, those folks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, like to toss their ka-zillions at impossible big projects. Perhaps one day toss their ka-zillions at NASA, Space-X or somebody else similar in the future and just establish a colony on the moon simply because they can. Wouldn't that be a shock to the world?

"Lunar-Dubai", the city of the cosmic future!
They will probably setup some kind of processing facility on the moon for Helium-3 and water out of the lunar soil.

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!

Mr Drako,

I find attitudes like the ones you have expressed very detrimental to advancement of a nation/people.

Yes you are correct in that the technology does not exist today to establish and support a moon base. But, nobody has really made an effort to seriously develop it. In 2010 NASA was given a $18.72 billion budget. This is just 0.52% of the entire federal budget that year. The military in the same year received $663.84 billion dollars which is 35 times the budget of NASA.

In 1969 America landed on the moon and even drove a buggy around there with the technology and materials that were available at the time. If an effort with the same determination as the Apollo program was made today to establish a moon base I do not think it would be unreasonable to expect one to be established within a decade. A space station already exists and is operating. The ability to live in space has been established. To accomplish the mission the technology needs to be adapted to the surface of the moon.

The moon has an average radius of 1,737 kilometers. That equates to a surface area of approximately 37.9 million square kilometres…that is 3.9 times the size of the U.S.A. Also, something like a moon colony will not begin with a big rush with everyone pouring in. I really do not see any of the other industrialized countries getting upset if someone builds a moon base there and starts to process a resource like Helium 3…it is all over the moon’s surface. If America built a moon base why shouldn’t the Chinese or the Russians take the initiative and go build one of their own instead of complaining…37.9 million square kilometres.

Also for the U.S. to sign the “Outer Space Treaty” of 1967 that says no government will colonize a celestial body was a very, very unwise move. America was the leading space faring nation at the time. They signed a treaty that did the most restricting to themselves!

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I like the reference to the old Homestead acts. We should use something similar here. If you have the technology to get to the moon, strap an astronaut down with some extra oxygen tanks and tell him he has 10 hours to walk a plot of land. If he makes a complete circle and doesn't run out of air, that's what that particular company/country/multi-billionaire can claim. It'll be centuries before we run out of space.

People like dex drako are the reason the space program has stalled.

This guy was on the Thom Hartmann program today and admitted his real goal was to try to create a Libertarian colony on the Moon... after all, nowhere in 7000 years of recorded history has a Libertarian model actually worked, so I guess they're forced to try and take their bad/ridiculous ideas to space.

Frankly, I wish the (textbook sociopath) Ayn Rand acolytes would get their arses to the Moon already and leave normal people alone as we try to create a civilization - a society (you know... community of humans... not "collections" of individual sociopaths)- that works for ALL...

Of course, the ability to actually travel to the Moon was a government-funded enterprise in the first place... so I wonder if they'll have a moral issue with space flight? NAAA!! Who am I kidding?
After all, Ayn Rand herself took Social Security and Medicare when her 3-pack-a-day smoking habit finally caught up to her and after spending her life disparaging others as "parasites" for doing the same.

Good luck on the Moon, "Libertarians!" Don't let the shuttle door hit you in the arse!

People I suggest you read the book read mars the technologically needed in the story is not all that far off from what we have available today.