Re: Rover Rights

>>There is a well-established tradition on Earth that these things come in
>>stages, not all at once. Sighting an island from afar and determining its
>>position gives a weak claim on it. Landing on it and planting your flag
>>gives a stronger claim. Starting a settlement there makes it definitive.

Here's a fringe scenario.
What if i have a grandfather who will soon be dead due to some fatal
illness, and his lifelong dream has been visiting space.
Somehow i manage to find money and expertise to put together a one-man
one-way martian soft landing for him. He lands there, preferrably by
the ice lake that was recently photographed by Mars Express, stakes the
land claim, takes a couple of pictures for postcards and then dies
peacefully, a happy man.
Will this land be officially his, and by heritage later mine ?

-kert

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