Who owns the moon? (Page 4)

Corwin: You don't vote for Kings.

The Lady of the Sea of Tranquility, clad in her most shimmering regolith, held aloft the Sword Excalibur, declaring by divine providence that I - Corvin shall be King of the Moon.

CinnamonPrincess: its just a rock and dust, u can keep it

Corwin: Oh sure, it is now... but once the Helium-3 mining operations are under way, combing the regolith for the precious fuel for our soon-to-be-built Fusion Power Reactors, I'll be raking (literally "raking" ) in a fortune.
Not to mention the cash that'll roll in from that giant 1000km wide Sony billboard contract.

LiptonCambell: Next thing you know....

Geoff: Wait... did someone +1 the Clangers without thinking to maybe Google them?

LiptonCambell:

Corwin: I'm pretty sure that googling your clangers in public will get you arrested.

quarks: googling ones own clangers is better than googling the clangers of another -_-

Zombieworm: "The Moon". Hmm. I own MY moon, if that counts?

astridarris: I believe WE created the moon in our imaginations. A gift

Geoff: Yeah... that huge lump of solar reflecting rock in orbit is only in the mind of humanity...

LiptonCambell: how come the moon predates humanity by, like, billions of years?

lori100: ---"If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” -
― Niels Bohr, Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge ..........seems the moon is not real......

Geoff: "The moon is egg. It is known." - Dothraki BS.

lori100: A quote from Einstein’s “Metaphysics of Relativity” (1950) is as follows:

“Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended (as fields). In this way the concept ‘empty space’ loses its meaning...

The field thus becomes an irreducible element of physical description, irreducible in the same sense as the concept of matter (particles) in the theory of Newton.”

Geoff: "The more you dilute it, the more potent it becomes." - Homoeopathic principle.

Zombieworm: It may "lose its meaning" scientifically, however surely it IS real, if we're discussing it, hm?

lori100: Seth-----"Your planetary systems exist at once, simultaneously, both in time and in space. The universe that you seem to perceive, either visually or through instruments, appears to be composed of galaxies, stars, and planets, at various distances from you. Basically, however, this is an illusion. Your senses and your very existence as physical creatures program you to perceive the universe in such a way. The universe as you know it is your interpretation of events as they intrude upon your three-dimensional reality. The events are mental. This does not mean that you cannot travel to other planets, for example, within that physical universe, any more than it means that you cannot use tables to hold books, glasses, and oranges, although the table has no solid qualities of its own."

LiptonCambell: lmao you're quoting Einstein and Bohr alongside your cult leader? Are you serious?

And, of course, you're taking their stances out of context to imply they believe something they do not- got any quotes of Bohr suggesting the moon isn't actually there?

lori100: cult leader.........from pg. 1 -----What moon? --------wiki-----Albert Einstein is reported to have asked his fellow physicist and friend Niels Bohr, one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, whether he realistically believed that 'the moon does not exist if nobody is looking at it.' ------------To this Bohr replied that however hard he (Einstein) may try, he would not be able to prove that it does, thus giving the entire riddle the status of a kind of an infallible conjecture—one that cannot be either proved or disproved.

LiptonCambell: Whats your source lori? You said Wiki, but didn't identify the article....

Corwin: Of course... why actually learn about something when you can just quote-mine for the bits and pieces that you like. It doesn't really matter if you haven't a clue about what context they were said in, or what it really means.