[quote=Ninemsn]After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner — a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia says she's registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.
Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El Mundo on Friday 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 per cent to the nation's pension fund.
She would dedicate another 10 per cent to research, another 10 per cent to ending world hunger — and would keep the remaining 10 per cent 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.[/quote]
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Sigh.
Stupidity week on Earth.
For a sec, I thought this was about the tabloid.
Then I read the article and laughed.
yeah fuck that assassination incoming
Guys don't talk about her or she'll send us into an eternal winter.
I claim ownership of the magnetic field surrounding the Earth. Ms. Duran, your property is sending a barrage of radiation at my property and causing it damage. Therefore, I demand $150,000,000,000,000 to repair it. (10% for myself)
Refuse to pay and I will turn it off
Well, then I claim ownership of space, going to have to tax the light beams going to earth.
:doh:
I think I'll go for a walk outside now the Summer sun is calling M.... Oh God Damnit, I have to pay money to sing this glorious song now?!
I claim ownership of the O-Zone
Every time you inhale you owe me a nickel
SO I can claim owber ship of anything unowned? Awesome. Time to find some obscure planet.
[QUOTE=Monkeytracks;26321824]SO I can claim owber ship of anything unowned? Awesome. Time to find some obscure planet.[/QUOTE]
You'll unintentionally enslave an entire alien race and kick off an intergalactic war genius
how in the fucking inflatable goddamn fuckshit balloon fuck would you even walk into the office and be like "hi I want to file a claim for ownership of the sun"
the clerk would be like "uuh okay I'll have to ask my supervisor" and the supervisor would be like "uuh okay I'll have to call head office" etc.
I bet this woman has at least six cats.
I hereby claim ownership of the universe! Muahahahaha.
I claim the universe
Get your sun out or else. :ninja:
I claim the Andromeda galaxy.
And YV Canis Majoris.
Fuck yeah I own a big ass galaxy with billions more stars (for those who do not know of physics yet, our Sun is a star) than she has :smug:
Oh, and I own a star that is fuckloads bigger than hers :buddy:
[QUOTE=Ali Legend;26321885]I bet this woman has at least six cats.[/QUOTE]
more like 60.
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;26321690]Stupidity week on Earth.[/QUOTE]
She's very clever actually.
I have claimed ownership of the moon! I shall now be sueing all the bastards who have trespassed on my property and stolen my vintage rocks!
[QUOTE=Amaurus;26321953]I have claimed ownership of the moon! I shall now be sueing all the bastards who have trespassed on my property and stolen my vintage rocks![/QUOTE]
somebody already did [url]http://articles.cnn.com/2008-05-19/tech/moon.land_1_moon-dennis-hope-lunar-land?_s=PM:TECH[/url]
Let's see her defend her claim.
It's the fucking sun. This is meaningless and she's just an idiot.
[QUOTE=Amaurus;26321953]I have claimed ownership of the moon! I shall now be sueing all the bastards who have trespassed on my property and stolen my vintage rocks![/QUOTE]
Did you read the article? Someone already has the moon.
[QUOTE=Amaurus;26321953]I have claimed ownership of the moon! I shall now be sueing all the bastards who have trespassed on my property and stolen my vintage rocks![/QUOTE]
read the article the moon is already claimed.
That might just have been the single most hilarious thing I have ever read in my entire life.
I claim Uranus.
I once annexed my friend pool table after invading his living room with a roll of barbed wire, 5 sandbags, a security light and a pool cue.
