torsdag den 11. december 2008

Who Owns the Moon?


Da månen er det eneste objekt i rummet som er nogenlunde indenfor 'rækkevidde' er der også en masse som synes de bør eje månen. Men giver det mening?
/Sik


Since the moon is the only object in space within reasonably distance to the Earth there are a lot of people who feel the urge to own it. But does that make sense?
/Sik

Moon

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Nearly 40 years after the U.S. flag was planted on the moon, a global rush to the final frontier has some pondering property rights out there.

IndiaJapan and China are now circling the moon with their respective spacecraft – to be joined next year by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Then there's the Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel some 1,640 feet (500 meters) and transmit video, images and data back to Earth.

The legal profession sees a brief in the making. [...]


Read more: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/081210-who-owns-moon.html

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