Would US Supreme Court support religious signage on moon?

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This week, the US Supreme Court declared Westboro Baptist Church of Kansas, USA, the world's one true Church. Would it be possible for the Rev. Fred Phelps to raise money for a moon landing so a large sign could be painted on the moon in large letters (visible from planet earth) which said: You're all going to heck unless you belong to the world's only true Church: Westboro Baptist from Kansas? Would this be legal or not? Apparently 8 out of 9 US Supreme Court justices believe in/fully support the Rev. Fred Phelps/his non-profit Church from Kansas.

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That is even more stupid than the norm.

Last I heard, the US claims jurisdiction over some of Antarctica, but the moon is too far outside the three or whatever it now may be limit,

If you beamed advertising onto the moon from a base in the US, THAT would be a question.

Too late.

You know how "'Meow Mix' is the cat food that cats ask for by name."?

Well a few days a month the whole Moon already acts as a billboard for a particular religion.

The crescent moon is a symbol of Islam.

The US Supreme Court has no authority to make decisions over international Lunar Policy, no more then an equivalent body in Russia, Canada or The Gambia has any authority on such a manner

Very good point about Islam.

All I have to say is that the moon belongs to Earth, not the US, and definitely not any one church. Nobody should be able to advertise anything on the moon, and also - why ruin it? It's a beautiful thing. How many astrologers would be happy if somebody put artificial star 'signs' in the sky to advertise things? It might be fun, but not if it's permanent.

Sorry but that's just ridiculous, advertising religion on the moon. I'm sure US law also states that every human being has a right to believe in what they want, which surely should extend to not being told that you're 'going to heck' if you don't belong to that church.

pgd, are you being deliberately obtuse, or do you not understand the difference between "freedom of speech" and "one true church"? Or, for that matter, between "United States government" and "theocracy"?

Be that as it may, since Luna does not belong to the United States, it's a bit outside the Supreme Court's jurisdiction. Thus, there is no part of your question that is in the least sensible. One wonders why you bothered asking it. Is this some new form of trolling?

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This silly WBC stuff is getting kind of old now...

But to answer your question, no.
Because North Korea already has plans in motion to capture the moon and I doubt they will share it with the Phelps.

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Were they not at one point "selling" minuscule plots of lunar terrain? I am sure of the "put your name on a heavenly body" deal, but I THINK the moon claims also happened.

In the 70s, maybe?

I believe it was around 1967 or so that the UN adopted a treaty specifying that the Moon, like Antarctica, could not belong to any one nation, but was an international trust of sorts. That kind of put the kibosh on corporate exploitation of Luna - how do you do that when there's no legal structure in place to protect your investment?

There have been people selling "plots on the Moon" - which have about the same legal standing as the company that'll name a star after your girlfriend for fifty bucks.

The full Moon, with its patterns of dark and light, actually appears to have the Taoist Yin-Yang symbol emblazened on it naturally.

Check it out sometime. Maybe it helps to take a few bong hits first ( I and some friends noticed this in college one night).

There was a sci fi short story in the cold war era which started with the Soviets sending a rocket with an H-bomb and lot of red dye at the Moon. Upon detonation it spray pianted a big red star on the face of the Moon- pissing off the USA.


In real life something like that would be an enormous undertaking.

To make a simple dot that would stand out as visible on the 2000 mile wide disk of the full moon it would have to be - perhaps a tenth the width of the moon.

You would have to paint a fourty thousand square mile area. An area almost as big as Florida.

Thats an awful lot of paint! And thats just for a dot. If you want a legible symbol, like a cross or a star fo david, it gets more complicated. Forget about "eat at joe's" because legible lettering would be even less feasible.