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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:22 PM
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Poll question: Is the moon American?
We put a man on the moon 1969. We planted our stars and stripes. Is the moon officially American now? And if so, doesn't that justify the Star Wars program? I would certainly say so.

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Gatchaman Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:24 PM
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1. I'm not sure...
I really think there's some kind of bizarre hands-off UN policy or something regarding how no country can "claim" the moon.

Of course, all that will be thrown out the window when the next humans get there. The Chinese will have no problems establishing their lunar foothold.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:26 PM
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3. Fuck them
It's our moon. We got there first. The Chinese might use the moon to hide WMD. I cannot stand for that.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:26 PM
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2. No, there's a treaty. Just like with Antarctica.
Redstone
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amitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:27 PM
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4. Don't you know that the universe is American? And God, too?
What are ya, stupid?
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:29 PM
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5. God must be American.
I never doubted that. I just think our colonization of the Galaxy and possibly the universe should begin in earnest.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:33 PM
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6. Ah. The old Outer Space Law question.
What year is this? 2006? Oh. Okay. Um, might makes right?
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:36 PM
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7. Of course
If we can get to the moon and no one else can, then it's our moon. But it's also our right to defend our property. If some non-American mofo tries to land on our moon, we should blast them out of space.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:36 PM
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8. No oil, they'll just sell it off...
I'd photoshop in the flag of one of my favorite Communist countries, Poland... no time right now though. :P
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:39 PM
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9. Here you go...
From the internets
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malmapus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:07 PM
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10. We got our flag there don't we!
You sure as hell bet that piece of orbiting rock is ours! :sarcasm:

DEMOCRACY IN SPAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEE
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:16 PM
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14. "DEMOCRACY IN SPAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEE"
:rofl:
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:15 PM
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11. Oh no way. I've seen a couple of Frenchman and a Swede flash one too.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:21 PM
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12. We like the moon!
Is there some love in the house for the spong monkeys?

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:24 PM
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13. I, for one, do not want to go to bed...
...by the light of a neocon moon.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 04:29 AM
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15. "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon..."
“Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July 1969. A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.”

Though several flags of the Soviet Union and the United States have been symbolically planted on the moon, the Russian and U.S. governments make no claims to any part of the Moon's surface. Russia and the U.S. are party to the Outer Space Treaty, which places the Moon under the same jurisdiction as international waters.

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