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[McNoodle]

Just read a story that Premier Inn has bought a �1m plot on the moon to build a 'motel' - like that doesn't sound daft enough, who've they 'bought' it off!? Who owns the moon to be able to sell chunks of it?

[weeal]

i wonder how many 'stars' the motel will get lol

[naky-nag-nat]

Roman Abramovic probably ;o)

[SKA]

lol at weeal
I'm selling the moon too, you can have it all for �79. I want to buy a portable dvd player

[figure]

Some people get mooned for free. lol

[vehelpfulguy]

There are people who sell you land on the moon (although as you say, have they the right to sell it as they do not own it)

http://www.lunarregistry.com/?source=gmoon

http://www.moonestates.com/shop-moonestates.ph p

[squarebear]

I suppose if the Americans were the first on the moon, then they claimed it?

[vehelpfulguy]

More on the Premier Inn story here

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_a rticle_id=148862&in_page_id=2

[SKA]

trust it to be the americans thinking they can sell it

what do they do with the money I wonder

[ChuckFickens]

Who'd want to go to the moon for a holiday in the first place!! can't imagine the beaches are that good! though you would get an awesome tan very quickly with all that solar radiation.

[druiaghtagh]

Where did you read it , the Sun ?

[birdie1971]

Squarebear was correct in the assumption that the Americans own the moon. Crazy as this sounds, it's not unlike the British empire which involved sailing around the world and sticking a flag in a foreign country.

As Eddie Izzard once said,

British Empire: "I claim India for Britain"

Indians: "You can't claim us, we live here. 500 million of us."

British Empire: "Do you have a flag?"


Since the USA got there first, they technically own it.