Where does anyone get off restricting space to anyone?

Why does anyone on Earth have the right to dictate who can claim space objects?

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-moon.html

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:36:59 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

Why does anyone on Earth have the right to dictate who can claim space objects?

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-moon.html

It's called civilization. A concept you're only dimly aware of.

On Saturday, October 18, 2014 9:57:02 AM UTC-4, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:36:59 -0700 (PDT), RichA

wrote:

Why does anyone on Earth have the right to dictate who can claim space objects?

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-moon.html

It's called civilization. A concept you're only dimly aware of.

As usual you ignore the question, and provide an irrelevant answer, peterson.

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:36:59 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote this crap:

Why does anyone on Earth have the right to dictate who can claim space objects?

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-moon.html

I claimed an entire lake. I went out to the center of Lake Erie and
claimed all of it in front of witnesses. I claimed the entire lake,
all the lands around it, all the rivers going into it and all the
lands around those rivers. And this claim, when challenged in courts,
has ALWAYS been upheld.

This signature is now the ultimate
power in the universe

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 08:18:27 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

"If you just simply occupy a place and no one else can access or use it, aren't you the de facto owner?"

No. Because how it is used can still be subject to law.

A private concern that physically occupies a moon or planet via a self-supporting colony could be just as civilized, if not more so, as any civilization back on Earth. They could claim ownership, declare independence and if no government had the means to interfere...

They could. But happily we have treaties that seek to prevent that
sort of unfortunate throwback to the times when countries or companies
could simply claim land and resources.

On 10/17/14 11:36 PM, RichA wrote:
Why does anyone on Earth have the right to dictate who can claim space objects?

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-moon.html

In common troll fashion you unknowingly provide the answer to your
trollish question;
http://www.state.gov/t/isn/5181.htm

RichA wrote:
Why does anyone on Earth have the right to dictate who can claim space objects?

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-moon.html

You right wingers are always bleating in about rights.
No rights here.
Whoever sets up the colonies or captures the steroids will keep them.

On 10/18/2014 11:33 AM, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 08:18:27 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

"If you just simply occupy a place and no one else can access or use it, aren't you the de facto owner?"

No. Because how it is used can still be subject to law.

A private concern that physically occupies a moon or planet via a self-supporting colony could be just as civilized, if not more so, as any civilization back on Earth. They could claim ownership, declare independence and if no government had the means to interfere...

They could. But happily we have treaties that seek to prevent that
sort of unfortunate throwback to the times when countries or companies
could simply claim land and resources.

chuckle, such ignorance of even recent history

chrissy pooh you are truly a liberal parrot

and by extension an idiot

Mike Collins wrote:
RichA wrote:
Why does anyone on Earth have the right to dictate who can claim space objects?

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-moon.html

You right wingers are always bleating in about rights.
No rights here.
Whoever sets up the colonies or captures the steroids will keep them.

Not a freudian slip I hope.
Asteroids not steroids.

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:27:07 +0000 (UTC), Mike Collins
wrote:

Asteroids not steroids.

They're meteoroids on steroids.