Thinking Of Building A Secret Lair On The Moon?

[doctorflea]

A long-running cause célèbre of some elements of the space advocacy movement has been the issue of private property rights, or the lack thereof, beyond Earth. Despite the existence of many private ventures that are happy to sell you plots of land on the Moon or other worlds, there are no recognized claims of property on those celestial bodies. The Moon Treaty of 1979, for example, explicitly prohibits any entity, government or commercial, from claiming any territory on the Moon.

www.thespacereview.com/article/2058/1

[Eryx]

Many years ago for Christmas my parents bought me a square mile of the moon. The documentation looks quite cool and authentic. Shame that one of the small print clauses forbids secret moon bases, surface installations or weapons of mass destruction.

[garethl]

Apr 12, 2012 11:25:56 GMT Eryx said:

Shame that one of the small print clauses forbids secret moon bases, surface installations or weapons of mass destruction.

Really? Does it really say that?

[Eryx]

Yes, it does have clauses like that. It doesn't word it as weapons of mass destruction and I forget exactly what it says but it's pointing to that.

[misterharry]

I'd just ignore the small print. After all, what are they going to do? By the time they realise what you're up to, you'll be holding the world to ransom with your interplanetary missile silo anyway.