Federal Sting Busts... 74 Year Old Woman... Selling Moon Rock

[miokomioko]

When an officer walks through a door it's "kicked the door down, guns 'a blazin'"

Sensationalist crap.

[Xno Kappa]

Yeah, the "armed cops" bit always give me lulz whenever I read it.

[Kuya]

I'm having a hard time linking the restriction on owning moon rocks to the stiffling of private enterprise in space.

[solanis]

the two aren't related. as of yet, the only trips to the moon have been by the government, so any moon rocks are public property and selling them privately should be very illegal. when commercial flights to the moon start happening, which should be pretty soon in fact, then those moon rocks can surely be sold.

[Chun Liroy]

next they will say you can't buy stars.

edit: beaten by 2 hours Q.Q

[Xno Kappa]

Invest in stars now, that way when humans can inhabit planets belonging to that star's system you can charge them for heat.

[Chun Liroy]

Are there rules about meteorites that I should be worried about?

[Jaybar]

Unless that meteorite was a chunk of the ISS, you should be fine!

[Not Kuno]

I wish they said how she got it. Other than that, don't really care.

[Ksandra]

how come we can buy stars but little old grannies cant sell moonrocks. fuck this species i want to roll something with jetpacks and teleporters

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[Dantrag]

I think that whole deal is some kind of fraud. There's a few weirdos who attempt to sell plots of land on other planets or asteroids for money. I'm pretty sure there was a news story a while ago about some dingbat who claimed she owned the moon because "she was the first one to think of it".

Lady from Spain claimed the sun wasn't it?

[Laugana]

I wish they said how she got it. Other than that, don't really care.

This. Did a piece of the moon fall off into her back garden?

[solanis]

you can't buy/sell stars, what are you guys talking about?

[Greatguardian]

This. Did a piece of the moon fall off into her back garden?

The target, Joann Davis, a grandmother who says she was trying to raise money for her sick son, asserts the lunar material was rightfully hers, having been given to her space-engineer husband by Neil Armstrong in the 1970s.

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Still, NASA has given hundreds of lunar samples to nations, states and high-profile individuals but only on the understanding they remain government property. NASA's inspector general works to arrest anyone trying to sell them.

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[solanis]

if her story is true (doubtful) it still remains that the moon rock wasn't neil armstrong's to give. :/

[Greatguardian]

if her story is true (doubtful) it still remains that the moon rock wasn't neil armstrong's to give. :/

It very well could have been. I doubt any federal agencies would have an issue with people giving moon rocks away. They are simply indignant when people try to sell them for personal gain, because that's not what the Apollo program stood for.

[Yugl]

I honestly thought Moon Rock was code for crack when I first read the title of this thread. After the kids, it's always the old people trying to act cool and getting into those awful awful rap videos. They just try too hard to impress their kids and they end up taking this shit wayyyy too far. Poking holes in their socks and pimping their their rides (aka wheelchairs). Someone ought to censor what they watch.

[Deadgye]

I honestly thought Moon Rock was code for crack when I first read the title of this thread.

They haven't let it leak yet, but the moon is actually made out of crack.

[Correction]

They haven't let it leak yet, but the moon is actually made out of crack.

[archibaldcrane]

if her story is true (doubtful) it still remains that the moon rock wasn't neil armstrong's to give. :/

Well, it's more that he can "give" it to anyone he wants, it just remains the property of the U.S. government and therefore can't be sold - just like the moon rocks we've given to other nations.