Woman Claims Ownership Of The Sun(!)
Posted by red pill junkie at 21:50, 29 Nov 2010
It was bound to happen: First Bill Birnes —former TV UFO Hunter and current publisher of UFO magazine— seeks to trademark the word UFO for publication in magazines —an acronym that has been globally used for more than 50 years; then the Facebook guys want to trademark the word "face". But now here comes someone with an even better idea:
Angeles Duran, a woman from Spain, has laid claim to the Sun. She argues that there’s no international law to prevent her action:
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.”
I know that somewhere there's an Exxon executive banging his head on the desk for not coming up with this before.
I really like the Geekologie writer's prescription of "[suing] her ass every time her property causes cancer."
It could also be a very lucrative opportunity for farmers, who would have every right to complain about failures in the service ;)
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22 November 2004
4 days 4 hours
Where is this saying in some countries that possession is nine tenths of the law.
While this isn't actually true, in my book she is welcome to try and take possession of the sun.
Perhaps it is advisable to avoid the heat and radiation, and land at night.
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12 April 2007
12 hours 59 min
And bring lots and lots of Coppertone ;)
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6 April 2010
27 min 59 sec
this is the funniest thing I have read all week. People are really getting f**king stupid, aren't they?
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
12 April 2007
12 hours 59 min
someone beat you to it ;)
My advice to you would be to move on and claim Mars.
Me? well they say Europa is lovely this time of the year :-P
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It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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6 April 2010
27 min 59 sec
....i'll just go for Pluto, I like the cold, and no one gives a crap about it ;)
...and if ANYONE says it's not a planet i'm going to throw my second grade text book at you from 1992!!!
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
10 August 2004
18 weeks 1 day
You could offer to sell someone exclusive rights to that bridge that's shaped like a coat-hanger and make enough money to fund the Grail for a lifetime!
Regards, Kathrinn
14 July 2008
50 weeks 5 days
I think we have gotten a whole lot stupid on this ownership/copyright thing. The above reference mentions Exxon... which reminded me of an instance that occurred some years ago when a minor league baseball team was forced to change its logo after being sued by our favorite oil corporation.
Yup, the Columbus, Georgia 'Red Stixx' - single-A farm club of the Cleveland Indians and member of the old 'Sally League' - used the 'double x' symbol in their team name and were sued by Exxon to have it removed. Don't ask me how a minor league farm club named after a tribe of the Creek Nation ('red sticks' or 'baton rouge' depending on your language preference), could in any way hurt mighty Exxon but... that's how it happened.
The Red Stixx moved to another city a few years later.
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
12 April 2007
12 hours 59 min
Imagine if nobles in the middle ages had fought over the symbols in their coat-of-arms. The 100-year war would have paled in comparison.
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It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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28 November 2004
1 year 38 weeks
In the mid 90s when I was in middle school I remember hearing one of my teachers discuss the deforestation of the rain forest and how it would lead to global warming. She then handed all of her students a pamphlet advertising the sale of one square foot of land in the amazon in an attempt to save some of the jungle. I thought this was amazing, not the whole saving the jungle part but the fact that I could own a piece of land in the amazon, maybe I could buy a whole bunch of 1x1 squares and secure a retirement home for me all before I turn 18, I thought; that would be amazing! But I never did, can't remember why but in probably because one of my parents told me it was a gimmick to donate to charity. Pretty funny when you think of it but sad too, how they lie to us little kids XD
Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.
12 April 2007
12 hours 59 min
I think those snake oil projects fail because they don't make use of the proper technical language.
If the teacher had said they were "forestal derivatives", they would have sold like pancakes! :-P
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It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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28 November 2004
1 year 38 weeks
There's a black market for that :D How do you think people buy sloths for pets? People put traps up in those 1x1 squares they own and turn huge profits!
Not to mention the guerilla warfare going on in those little plots of land over natural resources like that one fallen log that houses hallucinagentic mushrooms, it spans 13 1x1 squares and all the owners have been at war for years over it's ownership!
Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.
18 September 2007
8 hours 20 min
If someone can "buy Manhattan Island" for a bundle of beads and trinkets then someone can own the sun. These seemingly ridiculous technicalities can actually have a big payoff when lots of time elapses, and we become intimately involoved with the property in question in ways we could not have foreseen. Buying a giant hot ball of igniting gases sounds goofy, but what if in a thousand years various nations or financial entities are jockeying for positioning of solar energy sails in outer space, and the "real estate" of he sun's surface as it relates to in line orientation with the earth become a paramount consideration? Same with moon real estate. If your acre of moon happened to lie in a crater that has lots of water beneath it then it might be worth a hell of a lot in the furure if we are waystationing craft on the moon for refueling and resupplying.
12 April 2007
12 hours 59 min
That's why I'm going after the Europa property, emlong. Sooner or later the water in Europa is going to become a crucial element in long-distance space travels. And if scientists turn out to be right, and there's life on Europa, well, then! there's no limits to lucrative opportunities —zoos, safaris, indentured servitude (aka slavery), etc >:)
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It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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1 May 2004
1 hour 45 min
I, personally, am calling dibs on Rhea. Oxygen is bound to be worth something to space travelers, especially if you want to avoid Earth.
14 July 2008
50 weeks 5 days
I hereby claim the Martian moon, Phobos... and all alien artifacts, minerals and speculative exploration landing sites thereon, in the name of Emperor Cynic I.
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
22 November 2004
4 days 4 hours
I claim the asteroid belt. For a small fee, you can pass through it and I will ensure that you are protected.
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12 April 2007
12 hours 59 min
He would surely have a field day with us
;)
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It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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18 September 2007
8 hours 20 min
Of course there is the matter of real estate taxes. Taxing entities have a way of bustin' a cap on yo' ass with real estate taxes when you never thought they would notice.
10 August 2004
18 weeks 1 day
...capital gains tax if you decide to sell (unless it's the family home)!!!
Regards, Kathrinn