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Why lunar real estate isn’t yours to buy

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You can’t legally gentrify space. Under international space treaties, no nation can claim sovereignty over the moon, which effectively means no earthly corporation can legally enforce property rights over a lunar crater. This terrifying legal grey area severely hampers commercial space mining, as nobody wants to invest billions if they can't own the dirt.

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