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
Monday, when the law offices are open, I intend to claim Outer Space — specifically the void between Earth and the Sun. Then all the solar energy that reaches the Earth will have trespassed across my private domain to get here. Naturally, a fee will be charged. Get ready to pony up, Earthlings.
Spain requires an Environmental Impact Assessment – I’d like to see her EIA for the Sun, thank you! I’m sure it’d be, um, enlightening!
So now we have someone to sue for damages due to the sun. i.e. solar flare power and communication outages, drought, crop damage, skin cancer, hell even global warming.
Time to claim “space” and charge her rent for having her big ball of fire in my property.
So now I know who to sue for my sun burn and my droughts.
Angeles Duran, on reaching her new real estate, does the fastest Flamenco ever, like a flash, literally.
I claim the atmosphere. Now all of you CO2 “polluters” are going to have to pay me to dump your nasty combustion products in my air. And all you farmers and foresters are going to have to pay me to use it. A fee on both ends; I love it – hey, I coulda been a banker, too. Airplanes will have to pay to fly in my air, and as for all you people who breath … well, OK, you can breathe for free. After all, I need you alive to pay me for all of the above.
By a strange coincidence, I find myself the holder of the patent for Diatomic Oxygen ™. Not the element itself, of course, that would be ridiculous! No, I patented the double bond which holds two molecules of oxygen together in it’s atmospheric diatomic state. Someone else has the patent for the three atom single bonded ozone molecule, but word is the free radical form is up for grabs…….
At any rate, my fee for use of my diatomic oxygen molecule is the same as Ms. Duran’s fee for use of her sun! In homage to algebra, our fees will cancel each other out……..
But what of the magnetic/plasmatic lifeforms that inhabit the sun? Don’t tehy have indigenous claim? Power to the magnetoplasmoids of the sun!