Is the moon American?

[Renew Deal]

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.

[Gatchaman]

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.

[Renew Deal]

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.

[Redstone]

2. No, there's a treaty. Just like with Antarctica.

Redstone

[amitten]

4. Don't you know that the universe is American? And God, too?

What are ya, stupid?

[Renew Deal]

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.

[Floogeldy]

6. Ah. The old Outer Space Law question.

What year is this? 2006? Oh. Okay. Um, might makes right?

[Renew Deal]

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.

[Deja Q]

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

[Renew Deal]

9. Here you go...

From the internets

[malmapus]

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

[Renew Deal]

14. "DEMOCRACY IN SPAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEE"

:rofl:

[SOteric]

11. Oh no way. I've seen a couple of Frenchman and a Swede flash one too.

[Shakespeare]

12. We like the moon!

Is there some love in the house for the spong monkeys?

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

[Orsino]

13. I, for one, do not want to go to bed...

...by the light of a neocon moon.

[pokerfan]

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.