Punny Poll #32: Who Owns the Moon?
Author: Nick
Category: Money
Topics: poll, real estate
The results of the previous Punny Poll confirmed what I already suspected: we’re screwed. When asked if they’re worried about paying for their children’s college tuition, 35% of respondents said they’d be sending their kids to clown college. Another 22% have their eyes on state college, which isn’t such a bad thing. I mean, I’m a product of a public university and I can count all the way up to 450! About 10% of poll-takers weren’t worried and said they could afford to pay tuition bills, and another 14% said scholarships and loans would cover their children.
Popular Mechanics, a technology magazine which has since been replaced by the internet, featured an interesting article recently about ownership of the Moon. It talks about the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 which says that no nation can claim the Moon or occupy it as we did, say, with America a few hundred years ago. (That didn’t stop the U.S. from sticking a flag on it in 1969.) The treaty does not, however, address personal or corporate ownership of the Moon. Not too long ago, a guy named Dennis Hope started selling chunks of land on the Moon for about $20 each. National sovereignty and real estate law aside, there’s also the practical consideration that you can’t really own property unless you’re around to defend it, and except for the secret Russian laser cannon on the far side of the Moon, nobody’s really in a position to secure it.
What the articles doesn’t discuss is the 2008 Punny Money Moon Treaty which says that ownership of the Moon goes to whichever answer in the following poll gets the most responses:
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KMC
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 am
I think it’s pretty clear Pink Floyd owns the moon. Or at least the dark side of it.
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Maria @ Financial-Tip
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
Obviously, gun owners on the premises. Land isn’t yours if you can’t defend it, whether by law or force.
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Kyle
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:06 am
I own the moon.
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brandon
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
you all are wrong! michael jackson owns the moon
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Mrs. Micah
May 23rd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Your mom gave it to me…after last night.
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May 25th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
I wish I owned it. I love cheese.
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May 26th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I think the moon does.
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May 27th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
The real question is why we haven’t been back to the moon. Very strange.
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obbop
June 1st, 2008 at 10:05 pm
No one asked but I’l babble it anyway…
Shut down NASA until America’s citizen’s health needs are met.
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Bruce Smeaton
June 24th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Now THERE’s a smart comment i.e. shut down NASA until America’s healthcare needs are met. But an even smarter one would be…
… stop funding the military for a month. There’d be enough in the kitty to then take care of America’s healthcare needs AND we’d still get to go to the moon.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 12:18 am
I didnt know there were so many claims to my land!
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September 25th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Man that was a good list! I think it should go the caveman!
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May 20th, 2009 at 4:53 am
It talks about the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 which says that no nation can claim the Moon or occupy it as we did, say, with America a few hundred years ago.
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July 5th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Everyone enjoy the moon, but no one own the moon!
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August 28th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
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October 30th, 2011 at 8:43 am
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November 14th, 2011 at 7:51 am
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December 1st, 2011 at 5:29 am
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January 3rd, 2012 at 9:27 am
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April 19th, 2012 at 2:55 am
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