Space is worth a lot, but who owns it?

Many people have bought parts of the moon for millions of dollars but is it worth more? Of course it is!
If you owned the known space around us you would have more money than the Government can give you! The problem with people "owning" space is that what the things people might do with it would be crazy, reckless and even dangerous. Lets say Elon Musk owned space would he take care of it or send a million teslas into orbit? But lets say someone with more political power owned space like Donald Trump, we've already heard about Donald Trump's space army, if he owned space, he would be able to complete his plan without anyone being able to stop him as he owns space, he would be able to rain terror on any country that he pleases.
What I'm trying to say that space shouldn't be for sale (like Antarctica) because you never know who is buying it and what they will do with it.
Comments (8)
27 Nov 2019
How do they get lots of money we you go to the moon
27 Nov 2019
How about billons
27 Nov 2019
Owning parts of moon is really unfair b3cause we wouldn’t like if somone bought parts of earth
28 Nov 2019
First of all, Donald Trump owning space would be a complete disaster! And second of all, humans are all equal and not just one person should own space, no one should. Finally, space is nature and no one, I repeat, no one owns nature.
28 Nov 2019
If any country attempted to try and claim space, it would be breaking the 'Outer space treaty'. 129 countries have agreed to this, and it is overseen by the 'United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs'. This treaty sets out important principles 'such as the concept that space should be considered the province of all mankind, that outer space is free for the exploration and use by all states, and that the Moon and other celestial bodies cannot be claimed by a sovereign nation-state'. Because it states that no weapons are to be placed in orbit, Trump's new 'space force' may be breaking this treaty, which they have agreed too. It also questions the use of asteroid mining and whether it should be allowed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34324443
Good research that has led to this very relevant evidence, genius_flute!
29 Nov 2019
i believe that no one owns earth
04 Dec 2019
no one owns the earth because if people owned the earth it would not be fair because they will make up silly rules and then no one will come to the earth anymore
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