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[Bud Brewster]

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Thinking Outside the "Plot"!
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~ A Question for the Members: In the closing scenes of this Jerry Lewis comedy, Miss Connie Stevens informs her legal husband, Mr. Lewis, that she wants him to legitimize the lie she'd just told told a government official.

The lie was that she was pregnant.





So, if Connie and Jerry have a bouncing baby boy-or-girl nine months later (a baby who bounces six-times higher than babies on Earth), what would be the legal status of this little lunar offspring?

Would he-or-she be American because is its parents . . . or the first citizen of the Moon?

~ My Theory: The answer, folks, is right here.

First lunar babies will be born on the moon ‘within decades’
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Pow]

I'd much rather we did not see any kind of sequel at all to this wretched movie.

[scotpens]

The United States is a signatory nation to the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. Article II of that document states:

"Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means."

So a child born to American citizens on the moon would have U.S. citizenship by default. Unless the lunar dwellers decide to declare the moon an independent sovereign state!

[Bud Brewster]