The native Americans called they seem to know about treaties.
And their effects.

the problem is not claiming ownership but actually being able to keep it.

quote:

Originally posted by Blume9mm:
the problem is not claiming ownership but actually being able to keep it.

I don't think the current owners have any issues with maintaining ownership. I mean how many presidents are already in their pocket?

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ne-tenths_of_the_law

According to Newsweek, Dennis Hope owns the Moon.

Link

“ Hope wrote a letter to the United Nations saying the moon was his and asked the group to come up with a legal reason why an individual could not claim ownership of the moon.

He never heard back.

"I sent the United Nations a declaration of ownership detailing my intent to subdivide and sell the moon and have never heard back," he says. "There is a loophole in the treaty—it does not apply to individuals."

Since then, he's sold more than 611 million acres of land on the moon. Individual, one-acre lots sell for $19.95 ($36.50 after a "lunar tax" and shipping and handling of the deed) and there are discounts for larger plots. He once sold a "country-sized" plot of land—2.66 million acres—for $250,000. He's sold plots on the moon to three former presidents (George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan). He's president of the Galactic Government, a democratic republic that represents landowners on the moon and some of his other properties (he claimed Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter's moon Io, and Pluto while he was at it). Customers can buy the entirety of Pluto for $250,000.”

Either that or Weyland Corp.

Don't we have to grow crops there to officially claim that we've colonized (own) it?

If we're going by the flag that is planted there I'm told it has turned white a long time ago due to constant sun bleaching. Not a good look.
I think our astronauts' boot prints will suffice as testimony to who was first though.

Also, Mark, have you had a dramatic change in meds recently? I ask since this seems to be quite a shift in your field(s) of interest.

I saw a documentary that Nazi Germany colonized it and have been living there since WW2 ended, plotting their return to Earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky

"...the moon is actually not a solid object but is hollow and is or was a observation post from some other past or current civiliation."

Actually a disguised battle globe named, Dahak, from the Fourth Imperium.

quote:

Originally posted by egregore:
The French visited in 1902.



But they surrendered it.

ROFLMAO!

I believe George Bailey laid claim to it early in the 20th century.

I’m sure at some point we’ll have a big war to decide the issue.