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Toonces

Toonces

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it isn't owned by anyone - if you can get there; I'd assume no one would serve you an eviction notice
 
MartyMcFly3

MartyMcFly3

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: MartyMcFly3
Though several flags of the United States have been symbolically planted on the moon, the U.S. government makes no claim to any part of the Moon's surface. The U.S. is party to the Outer Space Treaty, which places the Moon under the same jurisdiction as international waters (res communis). This treaty also restricts use of the Moon to peaceful purposes, explicitly banning weapons of mass destruction (including nuclear weapons) and military installations of any kind. A second treaty, the Moon Treaty, was proposed to restrict the exploitation of the Moon's resources by any single nation, but it has not been signed by any of the space-faring nations.

Several individuals have made claims to the Moon in whole or in part, though none of these claims are generally considered credible.

Taken from Wikipedia
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So... I could theoretically set up a brothel/casino/bar/deathmatch arena on the moon?
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I suppose theoretically you could.
 
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Crono

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Originally posted by: UNESC0
it isn't owned by anyone - if you can get there; I'd assume no one would serve you an eviction notice
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Oh damn, it's a member from the UN! *runs*
 
D1gger

D1gger

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Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
We put our flag in it, it's ours ;)
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You believed that crap about the US getting to the moon? Everybody knows that was just staged on camera in the desert near Area 51, and that flag now is in storage for the next time the "space" program has to prop up their image by visiting the moon.

Proof
 
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spidey07

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Originally posted by: Vic
Heh. Wasn't this the subject of several Heinlein novels?

Seriously, no one owns it. This was settled by treaty. In large part because the moon sits atop the earth's relatively much larger gravity well. It would be VERY easy to attack any nation on earth from the moon.
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Hence why the US owns it.

We just let others believe we don't. Oh yes, we have bases on the moon. The dark side of the moon.

Then when the time comes we just fire out "moon rotating jets" and the dark side is now the light side.
 
nakedfrog

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Vic
Heh. Wasn't this the subject of several Heinlein novels?

Seriously, no one owns it. This was settled by treaty. In large part because the moon sits atop the earth's relatively much larger gravity well. It would be VERY easy to attack any nation on earth from the moon.
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Hence why the US owns it.

We just let others believe we don't. Oh yes, we have bases on the moon. The dark side of the moon.

Then when the time comes we just fire out "moon rotating jets" and the dark side is now the light side.
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Will there be an earth-shattering "KABOOM?"
 
Vic

Vic

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Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Vic
Heh. Wasn't this the subject of several Heinlein novels?

Seriously, no one owns it. This was settled by treaty. In large part because the moon sits atop the earth's relatively much larger gravity well. It would be VERY easy to attack any nation on earth from the moon.
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Hence why the US owns it.

We just let others believe we don't. Oh yes, we have bases on the moon. The dark side of the moon.

Then when the time comes we just fire out "moon rotating jets" and the dark side is now the light side.
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Heh. :) No need to rotate the moon. Any object launched from the moon at a velocity between the moon's and earth's relative orbital escape velocites (i.e. fast enough to escape the moon from but not the earth from the moon, which is a wide cushion of speed btw) will eventually fall to the earth, even if launched from the dark side.

edit: In fact, I'd have to look it up, but IIRC it would take less delta-v to fire an ICBM from the moon to the earth than from the earth to the earth (although it would take some 2-3 days instead of 20-30 minutes).
 
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spidey07

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Vic
Heh. Wasn't this the subject of several Heinlein novels?

Seriously, no one owns it. This was settled by treaty. In large part because the moon sits atop the earth's relatively much larger gravity well. It would be VERY easy to attack any nation on earth from the moon.
Click to expand...

Hence why the US owns it.

We just let others believe we don't. Oh yes, we have bases on the moon. The dark side of the moon.

Then when the time comes we just fire out "moon rotating jets" and the dark side is now the light side.
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Will there be an earth-shattering "KABOOM?"
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Nah, its all laser beams.

But like I said, its a secret. So hush-hush.

Face it - what other country has seen the dark side of the moon? They don't know and hopefully never know our secret. Why do you think Russia and US fought so much? Their moon satellites saw some of our "dark side" infrastructure and were quite PO'd.
 
Baked

Baked

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The US owns the moon. They went up there and killed all the moon people back in the 60s and claimed it by sticking an American flag on it.
 
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