Could Legal 'Loophole' Lead to

On 4/12/12 7:52 AM, brooksn wrote:

> > Great! Please provide your detailed plan for establishing permanent,
> > human-inhabited colonies on each of them, after which you can make such
> > a claim. (But no, actually, in most cases you'd have to first establish
> > dozens of widely-space colonies in order to claim the entire body.)
> >
> > Really... I thought our list was better than these sorts of silly
> > straw-man arguments.
> >
> > Sheesh,
> > - Joe
>
> Ah, so I'm just a detailed plan away from owning the land rights to all
> the solid bodies of the solar system, minus the Earth and the moon.

Argh, I should have known you would purposely misunderstand. Let me try
to be perfectly clear and use small words:

1. First you must establish the colonies.
2. Then you can stake claims around each one.

I was asking for your detailed plan to do the above, not implying that
once you have a plan, you can skip to step 2.

> So wait I have to establish colonies first, but this guy is selling plots
> now.

No, he's not. Did you even read the article we're discussing?

> Which is where the real silliness starts, that a random person can
> 'claim' the moon or any extraterrestial bodies and sell legitimate plots
> to people that believe they will have a real claim later.

Yes, that is silly. But it's not the topic of this article.