Israel's Air Forces Buy 500 000 Square Metres of Moon

[Crvena zvezda]

Found on Bulgaria: Israel\'s Air Forces Buy 500 000 Square Metres of Moon.

Israel's Air Forces Buy 500 000 Square Metres of Moon


2 May 2007, Wednesday

The Israeli air forces have purchased an area of 500 000 square metres on the Moon, international media reported.

The contract for the real estate purchase was signed with the Crazy Shop Company, which operates in Israel under the supervision of Dennis Hope, who started trading with the moon surface in 1980.

Meanwhile it became clear that Israel is the owner of the most properties on the Moon. More than 15 000 Israeli citizens have purchased real estates on Earth's only satellite.

In 1967, the United Nations signed the Outer Space Treaty, which forbids any government from claiming the Moon (or any part of space for that matter). The treaty failed to mention anything about private individuals or corporations, so a second treaty forbidding anyone from claiming ownership of extraterrestrial real estate was proposed. Only a handful of nations (none of them space-faring) signed this treaty. This left a loophole in international law as big as the void of space itself.

In 1980, Dennis Hope sent letters to the United Nations, the United States government and the government of the former Soviet Union, informing them that he was officially claiming ownership of all planetary and lunar surfaces (aside from the Earth) in our solar system. He even gave them the opportunity to respond if they had objections, and he hasn't heard a word from any of them since.

[Kernunnos]

This story is not buffonery: sooner or later countries having interplanetary technology will start colonizing other words.

As it is for Anctartica, whose territory has been quetly claimed by some western nations and Russia, the land, as far as I know, has been appropriated just by them.