Comment Re:international agreement -- I hope so! (Score 1) 230
>I certainly hope there's some such international >agreement. I don't like the idea of someone >buying peieces of space and defacing it. As far >as I'm concerned, I think the moon belongs to >me, just as much as anyone. Just like there ara
>national parks and reserves, I think the moon
>(and the rest of the universe) should be an >international park/reserve.
You know, I ended up doing a double take when I read this. Initially this sounds like a wonderful thing to me, that all of this land should be commonly owned, free space to all.
The reality of this though is that it's not going to work well. Eventually humans are going to start living off this planet (at least I think we can all agree on that). Once we do, do we really want every place you live beside earth to be some government owned and operated area? No, we're going to want to say this is my land and my house just as we do here. While I agree that some areas need to be defined as national park/reserve style areas, I think there also need to be areas that can be claimed for individual ownership.
>national parks and reserves, I think the moon
>(and the rest of the universe) should be an >international park/reserve.
You know, I ended up doing a double take when I read this. Initially this sounds like a wonderful thing to me, that all of this land should be commonly owned, free space to all.
The reality of this though is that it's not going to work well. Eventually humans are going to start living off this planet (at least I think we can all agree on that). Once we do, do we really want every place you live beside earth to be some government owned and operated area? No, we're going to want to say this is my land and my house just as we do here. While I agree that some areas need to be defined as national park/reserve style areas, I think there also need to be areas that can be claimed for individual ownership.
