Argumentative Essay: The Outer Space Treaty

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Have you ever wondered how it would feel to go in outer space? Well, get ready to spend a lot of money then. Scientist have been researching to get a way to Mars. They are building models and people have signed up to go to Mars. A man named Elon Musk is building a prototype named Grasshopper and is almost ready with it. He is working on getting us there and trying to make it possible to claim land. Also there was a treaty signed on 1967 called the Outer Space treaty which told us that countries can’t claim land but didn’t say anything about personal land claim. Furthermore I don't think that people should buy land on Mars. A reason why people shouldn’t get land because we can’t even live there. According to a recent blog that I read by Robert Walker which it is called Science 2.0, it said that Mars has no value for us except for the minerals or tourism. We can’t grow anything so we can’t eat anything. The surface is hard and rocky, then how will we build anything on top of it. We can’t have oxygen …show more content…

This article I saw was Miami Herald by Teresa Anjou said, there was a treaty proposed called the Outer Space Treaty, and it a treaty that forms the basis of international space law. It tells us that, countries can’t claim land but it didn’t say anything about us owning it. That’s why Elon Musk is trying to get us there. But if the Outer Space treaty comes out again and if they say that countries can claim land, then All the states that signed the treaty will want most of the land. The countries will want all of the land and then other countries would want it to, maybe then everyone will want to fight over Mars. North Korea already has nuclear missiles and could destroy countries. Mars is a place that cold make history of us going there, but I think that all of the countries would want all of the land, then war will break out. That is the 2nd reason why we shouldn’t claim land on

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