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
Can’t help but think, that if she makes some outrageous demands regarding “her sun,” then maybe she should [politely] stuff it “where the sun don’t shine.”
My apologies – I failed to see your post before I made mine.
So, we will sue her after the next CME causing satellite damage?
Wait ’til she gets the bill for 5 billion years of unpaid property taxes.
Maybe she can sell it on ebay? Maybe Angeles Duran is not so dumb after all. I’ll give her $5 for it with a maximum bid of $10.
First thing in the morning I’m going to lay claim to the entire universe ex-Earth, sun and moon as my personal property. NO. As of now I lay claim to all that real estate and this blog post is legal verification for time stamp purposes. Eat that Angeles Duran.
I hope she doesn’t have the right to rename it. She might just rename it after one of her cats or something. Morris has a nice ring to it.
Does anyone know what the rates are for charging solar panel owners for use of the sun’s radiation.
Speaking of the surprised look in those sunspots… they look a lot like 11/16/10 – a very familiar pattern. Watts up with SOHO? Hopefully, this post will be enough to jiggle it loose. 🙂
Best,
Frank
If I am polluting and causing damages to the environment outside my property you can bet that I will get sued really fast by my neighbours and all levels of governments. This sun of hers is emitting dangerous levels of radiation and projecting hot plasmas everywhere in the solar system that could eventually kill us. On the long term, her property will go super-nova and destroy this part of space. If she does not prove that is is all under control and will stop harming us, we will sue. So lady, fix your sun or we will sue Uranus.
Let the Skin Cancer Lawsuits Begin in… 5… 4… 3… 2…
Who said there were no downsides to ownership?
It is strange that the latest image of SOHO MDI Continuum is that of
November 16.
Up-to-date MDI real-time images can be found e.g. on the primary MDI site:
http://mdisas.nascom.nasa.gov/health_mon/gif_mag_index.html
@ur momisugly a jones
duh! The sun is a disc, much like earth.
So if I don’t pay my cable bill, the cable company turns off my cable. Is she planning to turn off the sun if people don’t pay her?
According to Attila Grandpierre, Hungarian astrophysicist, shaman and rock musician the Sun is full of life.
Therefore it is quite possible an entity there has already registered Spain (or at least Galicia) at a local notary public (or equivalent) as being her property, including all of Angeles Duran’s possessions. In that case a legal battle may ensue sooner or later.
Uranus was renamed to “Bumeholeh” many years ago to stop school boy titters.
“Ben says:
November 26, 2010 at 11:06 pm”
Add to that suit, power grid outages. Maybe we should e-mail this person about the “legal” risk? Or will she cry “act of god”?
No doubt she will be seeking licensing fees for the use of names like Sun Valley, Costa del Sol etc. Could be a nice little earner. I foresee long and costly legal battles with the owners of Earth over the rights to things involving the word ‘sunset’.
Whichever way you turn in life, the lawyers are in there getting a cut.
The UN treaty does apply to governments and their private citizens, which invalidates Hope’s claim to the moon and other celestial bodies, she said.
But that shouldn’t disappoint any prospective moon millionaires.
You don’t need to own a place to make money on it, Masson-Zwaan said. But you do need a clear legal framework for doing business on the property—something the moon currently lacks.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090720-apollo-11-who-owns-moon.html
Other people have pointed it out, but this quote from the leader of the ISL is pretty much as clear as it gets. There’s no way to develop a framework for doing business on the Sun. And her claim, as it would stand anyways, would legally be to the surface of the sun, not anything produced by the sun, other than she can utilize.
Send me the bill. I promise to recycle it.
Would like to see her try to homestead the Sun. There are other ways that vested improvements are used by land owners, such as when seeking re-zoning. Does the homestead act still exist in the US? Are there homestead acts in other countries?
I own the universe. All of you, get off my friggin lawn!
Long live the Queen of the sun.
Relax folks. I am personally completing negotiations with the lady to exchange the Sun for a deed providing freehold possession of the Brooklyn Bridge. And even before she completes her planned new toll booths, I shall have have adjusted the sun’s radiation (with the help of two notch filters) to eliminate IR wavelengths subject to capture by CO2. No more chance of Global Warming!
Do I see spots on the surface of Angeles’ sun, or she just not cleaning it enough?