Rlyeh, on 26 January 2012 - 05:40 AM, said:
Its a money making scheme. No nation recognizes these land claims, so how will you enforce them?
Enforce them exactly how this planet has. The moon is merely another chunk of physical land. Humans being humans...for a very long time have 'owned' land on what we call earth. Now technically you cannot own anything, but man has tried and done that with laws and statues (which aren't techinically law) put in place. Enforcing it with fedral statutes, state statues, amdmin proc, operating procdure...ect. In WW2 or after passports were not stopped and instead continued today (in time of war suppose to be used but used continous). This is what man has done, granted a few beings choose not to own land ect or can you really. It is all a game in my perspective.
That being said...what makes the moon any different? It doesn't. Man will and I mean will make people pay to go to moon it will be 40 grand for one trip there, and it will cost to own land there and this is what will happen and they eventually will even have things similiar to passports. What makes you think going to a different planet with how people impose things on this planet will be any different. It's like moving to a new house, nothing changes except the enviorment and/or people, and the people moving to the enviorment can either change their ways or do not ect. I do not see how people believe it to be so far fetched, because anything that is operating on this planet now in regards to policy and law...will sure to follow to another surface with some beings greed and greed for power.
And that is exactly how someone 'owns' land by thinking they own it and by others putting value in it. Globally peopole have for the most part accepted the dollar/currencies for value. By thinking highly of something they put value into a piece of paper. It's all about what one/the mass puts value into. And if 3 million or nearly 4 mil put value into the moon by money (which is an accepted global value) then it must mean something. People can think a lot other things, but their ways of thinking do influence how we operate, and how I choose to operate or you. To think what they think means nothign or cannot influence what will happen in arrogance. Last time land was 'not owned' was a few centuries ago..and seeing how we aren't heading in that direction..land on the moon will be priced, until we no longer put value in money.
Edited by puridalan, 26 January 2012 - 06:09 AM.