Wed, May 08 2013

Really! Did you know that you can purchase a part of the moon?

It all started in 1980 when Dennis Hope decided that he wanted to own the moon. Dennis Hope stated “I was out of money and thought maybe I could make some if I owned some property, then I looked out the window, saw the moon, and thought, Hey, there's a load of property! So I went to the library, looked up the 1968 Outer Space Treaty and, sure enough, Article 2 states: "No nation by appropriation shall have sovereignty or control over any of the satellite bodies." Meaning it was unowned land.” Then he went and filed a claim of ownership for the moon and eight planets and their moons then sent it to the United Nations with a note stating that his intent was to subdivide and sell the property to anybody he wanted to. Since then he has sold 611 million acres on the moon plus many more on other planets.

To read more about the company and their prospective city on the moon visit: http://www.vice.com/read/ive-owned-the-moon-since-1980 .

Interesting right? Let CoverQuest know what you think! 

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