Trespassing on the Moon and other celestial bodies  

 Well, where do I even begin with this blog entry ?????  I guess the best place would be from the beginning.  About a week and a half ago I had emailed off a link exchange request to a company who purports to have sold the most lunar property and other planetary property in the universe.  Well I received a response in the way of a voice mail on my private cell phone on Tuesday.  It was not until today that I was able to get back with the gentleman.  He claimed to be one of the personal assistants to the head cheese of the corporation.  We spoke briefly about how much traffic our website receives at this point and what we thought we may be able to do for each other.  

It was determined by this assistant that it did not sound as though they were willing at this point to allow us to do a link exchange due to the fact it would not benefit them as much as it would us here at www.ootwo.com.  Then the personal representative stated that their main concern at this point is that we are in some ways directly competing with and in violation of the operations of this lunar property seller.  I stated that we have taken great measures to ensure that we were not in competition, as they were not outfitting on the extraplanetary bodies, they just claim to own them in order to sell them.   

Here is where the conversation took an extremely bizarre twist.  I was told that the activities, which we purported to have rights to, would violate this moon land companies right due to the fact that we would be trespassing.  Either on land they have sold, or on land that the head wacko claims is individually his!  I said, “You have got to be kidding right?  No one owns anything.  No one owns the moon, or Mars.  If they did neither of our certificates or deeds would have the words, ‘Novelty’ on them.”  Unless I am mistaken, no one in person has gone to Mars or Europa ever.  Not to mention it has been what, almost 4 decades since anyone has been to the moon!?!?!  

I was met with silence from the other end of the phone line, until ……..  An outraged voice came back and stated in a very matter of fact tone that it has been well documented and proven that this corporation and the head guy “own” the moon and all other planets.  “You’re nuts.” It was the only thing I could come up with.  A somewhat civilized argument then ensued over the fact that I did not think anyone could own any planet, and I was countered with how they “do”.   

Let’s keep in mind that I deal with the public on a daily basis in business and personal endeavors.  I have had some very odd conversations, but this one by far took the biggest piece of the bizarre cake EVER!  I am being told that I would be trespassing on the moon!  ON THE MOON!  Like they full on believe that it is theirs and anyone, I repeat, anyone else who sets foot on it, unless they own a “deed” that states right there in “blue and white”, “Novelty”.   

For those of you out there who do not understand the definition of novelty, here is what dictionary.com has to say: “an article of trade whose value is chiefly decorative, comic, or the like and whose appeal is often transitory: a store catering to tourists who loaded up with souvenir pennants and other novelties.”  Clear enough?  It is meaningless.  How in the hell can you trespass on something that no one owns?   The bigger question is how can you be so far out there (literally and figuratively) that you fully believe that you own the moon.  Are there not a whole lot of people in soft white cotton gowns somewhere out in the country in a big stone building with court yards, flower gardens and all types of assortments of daily meds who are locked up for believing this type of thing?    

I fully know what we do and what we are selling on this web site are for fun.  It is something to hang on your wall or wear around town in order to start a conversation and just have fun.  We do not nor will we ever in my lifetime say definitively that we will take you fishing on Europa, climbing on Mars or anything else, or golfing on the moon.  It is a fun idea full of fantasy and gives someone a unique gift to give that extreme sports enthusiast in his or her life.  “Hey, dad loves golf and he already has everything.  For his birthday let’s get him a Lunar Golf certificate to hang in his den.”  That is what we do, not tell people that it is theirs now and that they own it and that they will have it when we go there.  

I hope someday all of the things we have put up on this site are real.  I wish I could see them take place and be the one to take people there.  We live in the best country in the world and we, if anyone could make it happen, but not any day soon.  Golfing on the moon and sandsurfing on Mars, sign me up if we could, I’d be there in a heartbeat.  But we can’t and I am not telling anyone we will.   

So all of you people over there at your fancy lunar property sales company claiming to “own” the moon/Mars/and other planets, let me say this to you …………  

Take your trespassing claims and claims of competition and violation and cram them up Uranus !!!!!!!  

Aaron Linden

COO-OOTWO

www.ootwo.com/blog

 

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