Lunar Real Estate

[Che]

I think it's supposed to be like a cute gift. Like for Valentines Day or something.

[Andromeda]

The only thing I can think of is how it was in the early colonization days in the Americas. The first people to come over didn't own the land, they just claimed it for themselves. As people explored and mapped Amercias they took "claim" of the land and thus able to sell it to someone. Even though no one had it before other than the Indians and they didn't really ask for permission. Fortunately, the moon has no life so no native beings can really claim ownership. So I guess technically as during the exploration days, the US could claim it all as their territory since no one else has been there, as far as we know. Which means it would be up to the government to hand out land deeds.

Isn't that sort of how it worked during the move west after the purchase of Louisiana and later territories? The government just sold land to private citizens.

I don't really think the individual that lands there actually claims the land. But hey, we haven't built a moon base or anything yet. So not a lot of it is going to mean anything, especially if NASA keeps getting budget cuts.

[Xithor]

I think it's supposed to be like a cute gift. Like for Valentines Day or something.

Do you mean like naming a star? Because yea that's cool and you'll never get to visit your star but a piece of land on the moon? Idk about that, I guess by comparison it'd be the same thing though