What is the Name our Moon?

[Growltigger]

Nah Dogscoff, I suspect you are severla thousand years too advanced, I suspect that the first nasme for the moon was "ook ook ook" accompanied by paw waving and jumping up and down

[David E. Gervais]

..or perhaps the very first name for the moon was..

Aroooooooooooooo! I know the wolves would agree.

Cheers!

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by dogscoff:

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Now who wants to disprove me by finding 'earlier' references to the moon and it's name?

I believe the first ever name for the moon was something like:
"Ug-big-round-sky-night-shiny"

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I feel quite safe in doubting that early homosapiens verbal communicatedion consisted primarily of phrases containing small syllable english words.

[PvK]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Ok, about this company that is selling land on the moon because they filed a claim on the moon as there own property, what do you think about that?

I think they are probablyly scum, and should be prosecuted as scam artists.

Will we go to war over the moon?

Hard to say. Humans are stupid enough to do so at some point.

Does any one man or company have the right to claim the moon as there own property even if they file a claim with the UN and or other authority?

No.

... So is the moon named Luna?

Yes, by some people.

I don't believe that it is the offically world wide accepted name.

Sounds like it isn't.

God I cannot beleive I am the first person to ask this question! Let the record show that I am. Watch now, in the next few years we will begin to see a lot about this and it all started here.

You're not.

PvK

[Taera]

to the original topic, not sure if it was mentioned before but wouldn't the name be Sol III A?

[Baron Munchausen]

People selling property on the Moon eventually will be prosecuted as scam artists. The same treaties that renounce any claims of sovereign nations over any of the planets or other extra-terrestrial bodies also prohibit the granting of private property rights to them. How could it be otherwise? Property rights are granted and mediated by sovereign nations! How stupid do you think the UN is? (Ok, don't answer that one...) Anyone who thought about the issue for 10 minutes would realize that disallowing sovereign claims would have to also disallow private property to prevent 'proxy' control.

[ January 28, 2004, 17:57: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[geoschmo]

Although, if someone were to figure out a way to get to the moon with some people, they could make a potentially legitimate claim of sovereignty. The moon, or some portion of it would be then a new independant country. They'd have to be recognized of course by the nations of earth for it to mean anything. But I cannot as a private citizen of the US claim a part of the moon, because as Baron says, in effect that is saying the US has proxy control over that territory. And the US and other nations have signed treaties forbiding that.