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
Anthony,
Why is this even here?
The sun is too far away. Buy land on the moon.
Policyguy,
Have you not noticed the “masthead” of WUWT?
It says: Commentary on puzzling things in life, . . .
So now we know who to sue for damages caused by the Sun’s U.V. rays, and any harmful climate changes caused by solar activity. I hope she has deep pockets!
Anthony,
Why is this even here?
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I think it comes under the ‘puzzling things’ category.
Then again, perhaps it is just for a laugh – it certainly (ahem) brightened my day…
Policyguy – it’s the Friday Funnies .
Awesome, now we have someone to sue for sunburn
Can I say Sun of a Bitch or just SOB?
I am reminded of my old neighbor Dr. Brett J. Gladman who discovered several new moons around Uranus.
It’s gone! I don’t see it anywhere!
You shouldn’t have given her any ideas.
Policyguy says:
November 26, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Because it’s damned funny! 😀
DaveE
I’m mooning her.
Someone thought about that sort of thing-Heinlein- need I say more?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon
I Know She’s not Going to Give it to People Who Need it, She Wants to Keep it all, SHES LIEING ABOUT GIVING 90%, SHE IS MEAN.
Is this registered in the National Star Registry I always here ads about on radio? “Give the gift of a Star this year”. If it isn’t I will not recognize!
Yeah? Well, she can just take her claim and stick it where the Moon don’t shine!
>:-(
From the article:
“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.”
(Snicker!!!)
Come and get it, sweet cheeks!
:o)
If she doesn’t want me using her sunlight, she can simply stop dumping it on my real estate.
As far as I’m concerned, she can take her sunlight and stuff it where the Sun don’t shine. 🙂
Sam Hall says:
November 26, 2010 at 6:07 pm
So there are blondes in Spain after all!
Hmm, according to http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040202.html :
It’s not even funny, because she’s using exactly the same words as Dennis Hope did in 1980.
It’s even worse, cause Hope at least analyzed the law of California and found a gap in it. But the spanish law doesn’t allow such claims on unclaimed land. At least she should have made a trip to San Diego and claimed it there.
That’s pathetic like telling a 30 year old joke, blundering the payoff and calling some journalist to reaf some credit.
I wonder, what’s the fine for having an unlicensed fusion reactor?
But is it nuclear, producing incidental electricity, or is it electrical, producing nuclear elements in the hot plasma of the corona?
That’s what I want to ask her.
Private ownership of thermonuclear weapons is prohibited by international law. Arrest that woman.
Even the Sun is surprised. Check the face in the sunspots, it says 😮