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January 04, 2007

Who Owns the Moon?

I can't help but laugh that someone has claimed the moon as his own and begun selling plots of land on it for $60 per approximately 1/10th acre. Even more hilarious is that he has managed so far to sell 55.5 million acres of land on the moon – in fact, he has completely sold out of current land inventory.

Dennis Hope, the owner of the moon, has also claimed all the planets in the solar system for his own. He has been able to do this because land registry laws allow any citizen to register any property as their own if it is not already registered under someone else's name and no one objects. No one objected, so the land became his. Now that NASA has announced it will construct a manned moon base by 2020, buyers believe their investments will only increase in value.

Posted by Becky at January 4, 2007 10:47 AM