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#1 2003-01-29 2:17 pm
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Step right up! Step right up! Ladies and Gents...
Dutchman Sold Pieces of the Moon
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2& … moon_sales
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - For years, Rene Veenema says he made a small fortune selling real estate plots on the moon. Now he's in jail, on Earth.
there's really no need for all of this
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#2 2003-01-29 2:22 pm
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Re: Step right up! Step right up! Ladies and Gents...
Isn't China headed to the Moon soon?
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#3 2003-01-29 2:28 pm
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Re: Step right up! Step right up! Ladies and Gents...
We should all buy up our plots of land on the moon now. So that when we have to move there, we will already have a place to live 
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#4 2003-01-29 2:32 pm
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Re: Step right up! Step right up! Ladies and Gents...
Will my moon lot still be OK? 
I want to move my bridge there!
OK, seriously though, why is he in jail? The article makes it appear that he's in jail because he didn't mail out certificates. I'd hope that these buyers realize that all you are actually buying is the certificate because you know full well that no one recognizes ownership of the moon. At least I hope people realize this.
Maybe I give people too much credit.
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#5 2003-01-29 2:35 pm
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Re: Step right up! Step right up! Ladies and Gents...
Isn't China headed to the Moon soon?
I think they are shooting for orbit. havent heard any claims about the moon.
dont bother buying land on the moon, mars is where the good land is located. get out your checkbooks. 
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#6 2003-01-29 2:42 pm
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I sold my plot of land on the moon and opted for Mars...in the year 2050 I'll be living peacefully
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#7 2003-01-29 3:24 pm
Re: Step right up! Step right up! Ladies and Gents...
i hope a lot of people move to the moon and mars so it won't be so crowded here on Earth
There are 10 type of people in the world... those you know binary and those that don't.
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#8 2003-01-29 7:37 pm
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Re: Step right up! Step right up! Ladies and Gents...
since when do we "own" the moon at all?
and how did that company get the moon?
this is yet another example of the negative effects of "advancement" of our world
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#9 2003-01-29 8:21 pm
Re: Step right up! Step right up! Ladies and Gents...
since when do we "own" the moon at all?
and how did that company get the moon?
The first one to claim the land and to be able to defend it is the one who owns it.
Now excuse me, but I'm off to buy a plot on Sol. You get way more land for your buck!
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#10 2003-01-29 8:24 pm
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Any student of exploration knows that it isn't important who first sets foot on virgin soil, but who gets that foot back home. If it is still attached to the leg, this is a plus.
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#11 2003-01-29 8:25 pm
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Re: Step right up! Step right up! Ladies and Gents...
since when do we "own" the moon at all?
and how did that company get the moon?The first one to claim the land and to be able to defend it is the one who owns it.
Now excuse me, but I'm off to buy a plot on Sol. You get way more land for your buck!
I believe somethingawful.com has brought that up, the advantages of sun real estate.
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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#13 2003-01-30 12:44 am
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I believe somethingawful.com has brought that up, the advantages of sun real estate.
Yeah, I know. I'm not smart enough to make something like that up by myself. 
Besides, it's only a low proportion of MacAddicts that read SA.
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#14 2003-01-30 1:24 am
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so i now can own alpha centauri because i say so?
cool!
hey hey, back away from the merch!
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#15 2003-01-30 3:40 am
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Re: Step right up! Step right up! Ladies and Gents...
Life is imitating art again.
Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein wrote a novelette called The Man Who Sold The Moon in the 1940s. I wonder if that Dutchman read it.
Why did any of those idiots buy themselves a certificate? I could imagine people buying them as a fundraising gag for a charity, but not as a serious purchase. $1600 US is a bit too much money to throw away on a joke.
And there were some big names in that guys sucker list - oops I meant clientele.
It's hard to fly like a turkey when you're up to your ass in alligators.
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#16 2003-01-30 11:21 am
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People are stupid, but think they're smart.
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#17 2003-01-30 6:06 pm
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Doesn't Time-Warner own the sun? If fact I heard they've copyrighted it. Expect to see high taxes on solar energy in the future. (After all, it's their sun that'll be supplying the "New Power".)
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#18 2003-01-30 7:28 pm
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I wish people would stop telling me to "step right up."
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#19 2003-01-31 5:43 pm
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Why wouldn't there be real estate available for sale on the moon? After all, we've sent out a lot of Surveyors.
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