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If the moon is colonized by the united states within the century, is it a possiblity that the moon will become a privince/state/ of America.
I doubt that very much. The Moon (like Antarctica) is covered by an international treaty that forbids any nation from claiming all or part of it. Besides, I think you may be confused by the term "colonized", which is not really the right term for space exploration. The most we might anticipate is a few thousand people living on the Moon; it will never be practical for large numbers of people to move there. In contrast, all of states of the United States have populations of about a million or more. David Morrison
NAI Senior Scientist
May 2, 2007
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