What is the Name our Moon?

[capnq]

Take for instance, Antarctica. There is a plot of land down there that no one's fighting over.

Kim Stanley Robinson wrote an SF novel called _Antarctica_ about what might happen when the treaty that protects it expires. (I haven't read it yet, so I can't say what does happen.)

[Paul1980au]

Well when antartica treaty runs out one would think that they will re sign it. To much to lose on an environmental basis there.

[rdouglass]

Originally posted by Paul1980au:
Well when antartica treaty runs out one would think that they will re sign it. To much to lose on an environmental basis there.

As long as they don't find a big oil Cache there or something like it.... I agree, environmentally it's very significant - it's a huge "early warning system" for environmental conditions.

In addition, it's not very attractive in terms of military strategy either (not yet anyways). Notice how there's no such agreement concerning the Arctic; partially 'cause there's no dry land but probably more so due to the superpowers being in the Northern Hemisphere (they want to fly surveilence, etc.)

Now the moon may not have much to offer monetarily but may be huge militarily in the not-so-distant future. I suspect that will be a big factor also IMO.

[Cipher7071]

Hmmmm....reading this page reminds me of an Isaac Asimov novel: "The Man Who Sold the Moon."

It was all about business, and politics played a very minor part in the story. Makes one wonder whether it could happen that way in reality.

[Baron Munchausen]

Ran across this while surfing and thought I'd share it.

Lunar Real Estate: Buyer, Beware!

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/l...r_beware.shtml

[Loser]

Originally posted by Cipher7071:
Hmmmm....reading this page reminds me of an Isaac Asimov novel: "The Man Who Sold the Moon."

Heinlein

[editg fix check, number 4]

[ February 03, 2004, 20:12: Message edited by: Loser ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

L, your sig looks messed up on my screen.

[Loser]

Yeah, I put the following in the sig

"According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention there is order. In truth there are atoms and a void."
-Democritus of Abdera, 400 B.C.

A Se+ GdY $++ Fr! C- Csc Sf AuO M+ MpTFd* S Ss RHSRV Pw Fq++ Nd++ Rp+ G++ Mm+++ Bb+++@ L+++ Sd! T?

and in the profile thing it keeps adding spaces here-and-there.

[Phoenix-D]

Extremely. Its making every thread you posted in H-scroll.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Extremely. Its making every thread you posted in H-scroll.

It's not H-scrolling for me....

Why is it adding the extra space?