Extraterrestrial Real Estate

According to Wikipedia, Extraterrestiral Real Estate is, “either land on other planets or natural satellites or parts of space that is sold either through organizations or by individuals.” Also according to Wikipedia, there are many legal issues with Extraterrestrial Real Estate of which the definitions are extremely vauge.

Yet, about 1/4 of the way through the article, it says the Moon Treaty of 1979 made Extraterrestrial Real Estate ownership illegal. So, why is there a Wikipedia Article on something that’s completely pointless and illegal. It’s like having an article of Housing of Antarctica. There is no housing in Antarctica. There is also no Real Estate in space. Regardless, the article continues, as will mine.

The article goes on to talk about Moon Selling, or Moon Sale, which I belive was covered under the idea of ‘celestial bodies’, but they did not. They gave it a whole 4 paragraphs, along with ‘Supposed Moon Sellers’ a 2 paragraph section.

The second to last paragraph is the History of Extraterrestrial Claims. Obviosuly, this was a neccesary and very important section- everyone needs to know exactly who has claimed part of the sky. In 1937, a guy in Ocilla, Georgia claimed all “planets, islands-of-space or other matter ” in the Universe as his property. But that wasn’t enough for Extraterrestrial Real Estate people. Just one man owning the whole universe wasn’t fair. Obviously, that would be a monopoly. So, a newspaper in Iowa decided to give ‘lunar farms’ to their readers…

The last part is about the Ownership of Empty Space. According to the UN, it’s still illegal to own empty space, regardless of whether or not it has absoluetly no use at this time and it’s almost impossible to use it within your lifetime. How odd.

For those of you who would like to perfect this odd Wikipedia arcticle, here’s the link!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_real_estate#Legal_issues

This is the Nightly Rambler, signing off.

~ by nightlyrambler on June 9, 2008.