[RightWhale]

whos moon is it anyway?

The onerous 1967 UN Treaty on Outer Space precludes commercial development of that nature. You can take your own gear there and bring it back. You can collect data. You can build a lunar hotel for tourists out of your own materials. You might be able to collect moon rocks for analysis. But you can't use celestial materials to build things, not asteroid mining, not Martian water, nothing like that.

[KevinDavis]

Did we raitfy this stupid treaty?? I would just ignore everything from the UN.

[Mikey]

The U.N. it figures, I guess since they believe they own the world, they also own the entire universe.

[NonZeroSum]

The onerous 1967 UN Treaty on Outer Space precludes commercial development of that nature.

No, it doesn't.

You can take your own gear there and bring it back. You can collect data. You can build a lunar hotel for tourists out of your own materials. You might be able to collect moon rocks for analysis. But you can't use celestial materials to build things, not asteroid mining, not Martian water, nothing like that.

That simply isn't so. I don't know why you continue to repeat it. There is nothing in the OST to prevent that.All All it prevents is claims of national sovereignty