The Man Who Sells the Moon

[Feuer Frei!]

This guy has the right ideas:

The notion that one man can lay claim to all the extraterrestrial bodies in our little corner of the galaxy sounds preposterous. Yet Dennis M. Hope, 65, of Gardnerville, Nev., the subject of this Op-Doc video, believes just that. For three decades, he has built a thriving business by “selling” land plots in space, on places like the moon, Mars and Venus. Of course, he has no legal authority to do so. How does he get away with this? He told me that, back when he was a ventriloquist in the days before he “owned” the moon, his dummy taught him a valuable lesson: you can say anything you want to anybody as long as you smile.

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you can say anything you want to anybody as long as you smile.

His dummy ain't no dummy.

Mr. Hope is under the impression that he can legally own the moon — all of it — due to a legal loophole in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which reads:

“No nation by appropriation shall have sovereignty or control over any of the satellite bodies.”

And since the treaty doesn’t specifically state that people can’t own the moon (just no nations; sorry guys!), he believes that is the loophole that gives him free reign to do whatever the hell he wants with the moon.

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