Technically, the moon belongs to America; since they landed on it first and put their flag on it, amirite?

A large porportion of Americans seem to the think the WORLD belongs to them. It's a losing battle so what the hell, have the moon as well.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

^this

by Anonymous 13 years ago

When you make accusations against someone, you lose credibility when you use the wrong words. I believe you mean portion, not proportion, or 'porportion'. Actually, most Americans don't think that. We only get stereotyped as thinking that, which is why people believe it. Sorry to disappoint, the average American person isn't as greedy as you think.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm pretty sure most of us only think that the United States belong to us. But what do I know, I only live in the US.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

*insert hostile accusation here* am I doin' it rite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

trolololol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I heard some crazy chinese has started to 'sell' the lands on the Moon. So it's Chineses' ?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

..China's?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Even though I put my dick in a girl doesn't necessarily mean I own her too. Jk lol I do.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I do believe the Native American Indians 'landed' on USA soil first and i also believe that the British 'put their flag' on USA soil first, but by no means at all does that mean that the Native OR Britain own the USA.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But the US won the land through war. So it's there's now. If someone wants the moon, they have to fight the US for it. Simple as that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You make a fair point, however just because an American citizen was the first to take steps on the moon and place a flag it does not cause it to become the USA's property.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well isn't that how countries claim previously unoccupied land? You send explorers, then you put your flag on it and it's yours...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(America Fuck Yeah): He's got a very convincing arguement.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thank you. I think most of the No ways are on principle. It seems unfair for someone to own the moon, which I agree with. But this has been going on for centuries. The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, French, British, etc. They've all done it. They send out their explorers an claim land that isn't inhabited yet. If it is, they kill and enslave the natives and claim the land as theirs. If this didn't happen, there wouldn't be an America.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is why the rest of the world perceives us as ignorant.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I will give you credit for properly using a semicolon.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, it's not used properly; if they took out the 'since' it would be proper, however the 'since' creates a dependent clause and a semicolon requires an independent clause.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That wasn't actually proper use of a semicolon. A semicolon seperates two independent clauses and "since they landed on it first and put their flag on it" isn't an idependent clause; it couldn't be a sentence on its own.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Number one, there's a reply button for a reason. Number two, I already explained it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sorry, I was typing kind of slow and didn't refrsh the page so I didn't see that you had posted as well.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh, understandable. (: I'm glad somebody else noticed though. Lol.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I feel the same way :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

only if the moon is made of american cheese

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sorry to get all Native American philosophy-esque on you, but I truly don't think people can OWN land. I mean.. it's earth (or in this case, moon). It will be around for ages, you know? We're so temporary compared to everything we claim to control... I don't know. I feel like humans are just really full of themselves.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

THANK YOU FOR ESTABLISHING THIS POINT!!! We really all are full of ourselves.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I do agree with you that nations and country are social and political constructs - there is no real natural line that separates the United States from Mexico, or France from Italy - and that said nationalising can be harmful - both when colonising land from native people, and when citizens get caught in political constructs. But, having nations and nationalities is useful, in a legal way more than anything else. People can own land - obviously temporarily, as everyone's existence is only temporary.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm not trying to be annoying or anything, but there is a natural line between the US and Mexico: Rio Grande. I'm not quite sure how far it goes, but at the very least it is there at the Texas-Mexico border.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No problem, I didn't know that :P But I did mean, that the fact that the Mexico ends there and the US starts there isn't a natural occurrence, or set in stone. Kinda like how Hawaii was part of Oceania, before it was bought or something (?) by the US.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm actually not sure about Hawaii. I just know about out southern border because I'm Texan. But, yeah, I understand what you mean now and I agree with you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Neither am I, but on maps you can see that Hawaii is in the same region as other Oceanic islands http://www.jarvisisland.info/maps/oceania.gif and I think it was bought sometime, or became a US state somehow, like, it wasn't part of the US when the US first became a country.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My 5 min. research has told me the Hawaii is the newest state and was annexed into the country, which sounds about right. I'm not quite sure if anyone cares, but whatever.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

When the US first became a country there were only 13 states, all on the east coast. The last state admitted was Hawaii in 1959. It's also a possibility that within our lifetime, Puerto Rico may become a state. We let them vote on it every 10 years, but they've yet to want to be a part of the US.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I have a feeling that this is Simon

by Anonymous 13 years ago

or Courageous_Wolf. They both make stupid posts like these all the time.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You want some cheese with that whine?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You want a bag for all that douche? I wasn't even fucking complaining retard. I was just stating a fact.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Rightio. I'm a bat.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It isn't, actually - this impostor stole my troll name/theme.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I wish I was popular enough for people to guess it was me when I trolled :( Also, I've been here since May 2010. One of my previous work with a similar troll name: #259983 I can't post links unless I log in :/ I can't remember the others because it's been so long since I've trolled America.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sorry. I'm really curious as to who you are now. And it wasn't so much people blind guessing - I used to use the Anon name AMERICAFUCKYEAH.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

wtf, simon?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah. I felt like changing my account a bit.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"No flag, no country, can't have one. That's according to the rules I've just made up." ~Eddie Izzard

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Can we not start this?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I disagree but it does make you wonder what we (everyone on Earth) would do if we started to live on the moon. Would there be wars to claim land like when Europeans "discovered" America?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So America really belongs to native Americans? And by that logic they then also own the moon...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Tbh from what I understand the vikings found amercan soil before British, French, Spanish and the natives (the natives are aztecs ect who moved up) so Europe still discovered America XD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well then Vikings own the moon

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'll drink to that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No. Just no.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

'MURICA FUCK YEAH

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If by America, you mean the Soviet Union, you are correct.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Lol you upvoted your own comment. Just a heads up by the way, the Soviet Union had the first man in space, not on the moon. Get your shit straight.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Then the soviet union owns space.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In theory this means they also own the earth :S

by Anonymous 13 years ago

lol calm down. I was testing you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I bet you were...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What f*ckery is this? The moon clearly belongs to the universe.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

guys, you are clearly all wrong about this. nazi germany CLEARLY had a complete working society on the moon, complete with housing and graveyards. they were also doing tests that went terribly wrong and turned everyone into zombies... on the moon.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, I've been there before!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The is just the epitome of the American stereotype. Even the name; "America Fuck Yeah"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You don't own something cuz you planted a flag on it. Not quite how the law works. It's only technically America's if the important members of the international community acknowledge such an ownership and of course, they don't. In fact, they prohibited national, corporate, or any kind of private ownership of the moon through the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty - ratified by everyone in the UN. The treaty goes on to establish outer space to be the province of all mankind. So, technically, the moon belongs to all of us. At least for now.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Darn you beat me to it, I was scanning this whole thread to see if anyone brought this up and you got it with the last post. sadface.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

FUCK Y'ALL I own everything

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This American knows that there actually is a law in place that states the no organization, country or person can own the moon.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

WTF IS UP WITH THIS! Luna owns the funking moon!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You just made me extremely upset that I am an American.

by Anonymous 13 years ago