JAPAN: Maybe We Should Build A Moonbase?

Japan is thinking about building a moon base.

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I’m kind of apprehensive, though.

Sounds too much to me like the beginning of Gamera vs. Zigra.

What will be interesting to see is what happens when several nations have bases on the moon and we start using its resources and things get . . . territorial. The Antartica treaty may make a useful parallel for a lunar exploitation treaty for a piece, but then things will get . . . competative.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

8 thoughts on “JAPAN: Maybe We Should Build A Moonbase?”

  1. The Antartica treaty may make a useful parallel for a lunar exploitation treaty for a piece, but then things will get . . . competative.
    Who gets the Ancient outpost on the moon with all the cool weapons?

  2. Finders keepers,our flag was there first.
    Maybe we can work out some type of lease program.

  4. Cool! When I was a kid everyone figured we would have a moonbase by now. We are also way behind in the “domed city” department. You know, with the perfect weather and monorails running every which way…

  5. I hear they don’t have any social security crisis in that domed city with the perfect weather and the monorails.

  8. Given Japanese demographics, there wont be anyone to send to their moon base in fifty years… so maybe in 51 years, we just ease in under ‘squatters rights.’

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