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FOR a lesson in how not to establish a new world, the pages at
http://www.moonshop.com/ take some beating. As reported in Feedback (22 March),
the pages offer plots of land on the moon for sale. Anyone tempted to buy one
might care to read the text of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. Articles I and II
declare all celestial bodies to be the common property of mankind. See for
yourself at http://www.iasl.mcgill.ca/space_law/outersp.html.