From the “I have first dibs on Uranus” department:
From Yahoo News/AFP: Spanish woman claims ownership of the Sun
MADRID (AFP) – After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner — a woman from Spain’s soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.
Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El Mundo she took the step in September after reading about an American man who had registered himself as the owner of the moon and most planets in our Solar System.
There is an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals, she added.
“There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first.”
The document issued by the notary public declares Duran to be the “owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the centre of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometres”.
Duran, who lives in the town of Salvaterra do Mino, said she now wants to slap a fee on everyone who uses the sun and give half of the proceeds to the Spanish government and 20 percent to the nation’s pension fund.
She would dedicate another 10 percent to research, another 10 percent to ending world hunger — and would keep the remaining 10 percent herself.
“It is time to start doing things the right way, if there is an idea for how to generate income and improve the economy and people’s well-being, why not do it?” she asked.
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h/t to WUWT reader johnb
Odd, I don’t seem to remember this Lady purchasing a parking permit for her “Sun” in MY GALAXY. Oh, there will be a Humdinger of a Lawsuit, you betcha!
Hmmm. I wonder if I could sell her some Nova insurance?
I wonder can we find a group of people with melanomas to start suing her?
Thats pretty funny!!!
“It is time to start doing things the right way, if there is an idea for how to generate income and improve the economy and people’s well-being, why not do it?” she asked.
Because, like all get-rich-quick schemes, whether private or (more likely) governmental, no wealth is being created. It’s nothing but a form of theft. Duh.
What a bright idea!
She would need a lot of carbon offset credits.
She said: “I am not stupid.”
I beg to differ.
Unless she is using this to make money of cap and trade, in which case … maybe I should say I own the sun. And then when cap-and-trade forces companies to use solar panels, I’ll charge a usage fee. Hmm … not a bad idea.
If the apples from the neighbor’s tree fall on your property, they’re yours. As for the sunshine that falls on my property? Tough toenails. The sun is hers and the sunshine is mine. She should have parked the sun somewhere so that she was the only beneficiary.
The Sun is there first, claiming a newspapert doesn’t have to pay to use The Sun.
“…she now wants to slap a fee on everyone who uses the sun…”
Collection agency = Browner, Gore, and Mann, LLC. Come and get it.
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“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
…and how certain are we that there are no one else out there, on another planet, in “our” galaxy, that has already claimed “our” sun as theirs ? maybe “they” filed their claim on Alpha Centauri…
Love the sign in the photo/graphic.
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Surely the question is if nobody wants to play her game will she take her big shiny ball home with her?
Kindest Regards.
I’m sending Angeles some money right now. /sarc off
Now if “There is an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, …” then in my mind that includes a country’s citizens. These loophole seekers are sad. OK then, I will register ownership of the universe tomorrow morning which means I own the lot. :o)
AH HAH!!
Now, we really have somebody to blame for global warming. “Move that hot ball of fire a little further away, or we’ll sue.”
I’m sure that the Spanish government have a variety of laws, taxes, and tariffs for the proud owners of space bound fusion reactors.
I want her to desist from having her sun shine so brightly on the open Arctic water in summer so as to release it from the death spiral. I’m sure all the male sun owners in the Universe behave responsibly. Why shouldn’t she have to do the same. Sheesh.
Hahahaha… Leave it to a woman in a Eco-Socialist country to get dibs on yet another
hair-brained bit of ‘logic’…afterall……..she KNOWS The Law (and how to pervert it…?) Let’s do an ancestry search… she’s probably related to Al!
Thanks, Anthony. I needed this!
C.L. Thorpe (singing “There Goes the Sun”…doo doo doo doo… an’ it’s alright…)
I think she has to visit the place first. Then plant her flag. Then return and file her ownership papers.
I’ll wait here.
My lawyer is already experienced in pursuing manufacturers of tanning beds for causing sun damage………..
LOL
Maybe the owner can verify if it’s true that there’s a ring around Uranus.
At least “skeptics have a sense of humour.
I can’t wait for my bill to arrive, and what she intends to do when I fail to pay. There goes my credit rating. LOL………..
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Skeptic Tank says:
November 26, 2010 at 5:29 pm
AH HAH!!
Now, we really have somebody to blame for global warming. “Move that hot ball of fire a little further away, or we’ll sue.”
LOL! Let’s see how fast she drops her claim on the sun when someone with a little spare money and a sense of humor sends their lawyer around with an actual lawsuit. She may have a legal claim to the sun but she also has to obey the Law of Unintended Consequences.
She said “I told you I am smart! I will go at night.”