| Author | Message | ||
     Mtnchld |
Firm fights to sell moon real estate BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- For sale: acre plots, great Earth views, low gravity, moonrock-bottom prices, about as away from it all as you can get. A Chinese company is fighting for the right to pitch plots of land on the moon for sale after authorities shut the scheme down on charges of profiteering and lunacy. Beijing Lunar Village Aeronautics Science and Technology Co. has sued commercial authorities in China's capital for suspending its business licence on October 28, just days after it opened, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. "There is not a law or regulation in China that prohibits the selling of land on the moon," chief executive officer Li Jie was quoted as saying. "They don't have enough evidence to make the ruling." The company, which calls itself the "Lunar Embassy to China", had sold 49 acres of lunar land to 34 Chinese clients within three days of opening on October 19, Xinhua previously reported, two days after two Chinese astronauts returned to Earth from the country's second manned space mission. Just under 300 yuan ($37) was all it cost to buy a deed promising rights to one acre of dusty lunar soil and any minerals up to two miles underground until the company was accused of illegal speculation and profiteering. The domestically financed firm is the China agent of the U.S.-based Lunar Embassy, an extra-terrestrial real estate agency aimed at exploiting what it sees as a loophole in a 1967 international treaty on the moon. Earlier this month, the Lunar Embassy started selling domain names for the "extra-terrestrial Internet", which the company says will eventually include Web sites with such endings as .lunar, .space and .uranus.  | ||
| Fullpower |
i have for sale several fissures on Uranus. first hundred dollars gets one. dean h ravin. | ||
| Road_thing |
I think I'll buy one of those fissures and sit on it for a while... | ||
| Fullpower |
tell you what. i would like to get ahold of the list of purchasers for the lunar lots. send out some property tax bills. i think i will set up the first lunar tax authority. if some one is buying land, i want to be first in line to collect levies. any one here want to provide some start-up capital for the First Lunar Bank? i hope to have an earth branch open real soon.... working on a charter now. email direct for the instructions on how to wire me your kids college money. | ||
| Tank_bueller |
DLV Department of Lunar Vehicles | ||
| Fullpower |
WHAT?? now you tell me i need a drivers license on the moon? that's crazy, next thing you will say i need lunar auto insurance.. well at least given the atmospheric lack of oxygen, fire insurance should come cheep. | ||
| Tank_bueller |
So, sir... You ran over a moon rock, huh. Looks like minor damage; 1 flat moon tire, and a bent moon tire rim. Shouldn't take too long to get the parts. Maybe 3-4..... . . . . . ....YEARS! | ||
| Vegasbueller |
You have to beware of the Klingons around Uranus Sorry.. I couldn't help myself |
