Celestial body as property

Proposing a system for acquiring property on celestial bodies and objects which avoids the bad outcome that the early space travelers claim everything.

My view of property rights is very different from an antisocialist's. People are not inherently entitled to own any kind of property, but a system of property rights can be beneficial on the margin for people in general. In normal circumstances, where no one is in penury, it is useful for individuals to own clothing, books, furniture, bicycles, food, and so on, and maybe even houses. I mean "useful" in the sense that in those circumstances the system of property rights benefits everyone. This presumes that overall economic system protects people from poverty, so that every individual gets to own a reasonable amount of those things.

However, property rights must not be absolute. If the system does push someone into poverty, "property rights" can't justify keeping that person in penury. If you need food to survive, you are entitled to "steal" some, with a few special exceptions such as taking the food some other penurious person was about to eat, or taking a farmer's seed corn.

That said, the temporary property rental system proposed in the article linked to could be a useful method to add to a system of non-absolute property.