Whose Sun is It?

[ajitpd]

Spanish woman claims ownership of the sun

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...panish-woman-claims-ownership-of-the-sun.html

A Spanish woman claims she has become the legal owner of the Sun after registering it as her property with a local notary and now plans to charge those who use it.

She is either very clever or Spanish government is too stupid.

I am planning to claim the ownership of rest the Universe; fuck nature. No more observatories or space venture without paying taxes to me first.

 

[Ace Bandage]

That's a great idea. :1orglaugh Something tells me though that this may not hold up in court...

I'm surprised DirecTV hasn't jumped on this yet. They already overcharge me for everything else.

 

[vodkazvictim]

I'm suing the bitch for my sunburn. EVERYBODY DO LIKEWISE!

 

[STDiva]

This is fucking stupid.

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

This is fucking stupid because I didn't think of it first!

:turnturn:

 

[Hot Mega]

Settle it on Maury with a DNA test.

 

[Facetious]

Damn that international star registry racket!
You know that's who fostered this woman's bizarre idea. :horse:

 

[PirateKing]

I don't see her name on it, but I guess we can always send her there so she can stake her claim.

 

[LukeEl]

She can claim the Sun as hers when she pries it from my cold dead hands!

 

[bustybbwlover]

ra's? or maybe helios'? sol invictus'? i'm not sure

 

[maildude]

Ha! Let's see how fast she tries to sell it on eBay when it starts to supernova in 20 million years! :1orglaugh

 

[ajitpd]

She can claim the Sun as hers when she pries it from my cold dead hands!

[in Homer Simpson's style] Mmmmmm! Irony!!!

 

[Sicario]

She can have the sun all to her fucking herself, have fun trying to collect the fees from the 6 billion or so earth inhabitants. :thefinger

 

[StanScratch]

I remember when someone tried to claim ownership of The Moon by carving his name into it with a big-assed laser. However, his plan was foiled after he only got "CHA" carved on the surface. For ages, Charo had been blamed on that act of vile defamation, but it just turned out being some dude with a chair for a head.

 

[Kingfisher]

Wouldn't it be under the clause of public domain and I'll cite the case of Finders versus Keepers.

 

[ajitpd]

Wouldn't it be under the clause of public domain and I'll cite the case of Finders versus Keepers.

Following quote is from the link in my original post:

Although the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 prevents any government from staking their claim over celestial bodies it does not extend to private individuals, an opinion backed by her notary after consulting legal bodies in Spain.

Governments act stupider when laws are just stupid with big gapping loop holes.

 

[pete rose]

No one can contain the awesome power of the sun!

 

[Neutron66]

I'm suing the bitch for my sunburn. EVERYBODY DO LIKEWISE!

Seriously. If the bitch wants to charge for the sun, she better be prepared to take full responsibility for it.

So everyone who's had sunburn, every family of someone who's died of heat exposure, every farmer who's lost a crop to drought, everybody line up and sue.

 

[Spleen]

She is both clever and dumb at the same time. I can't believe no one had done it before. The whole charging thing is too ridiculous to ever get anywhere though.

I'm suing the bitch for my sunburn. EVERYBODY DO LIKEWISE!

Now that is a very good idea...

 

[D-rock]

Even if she could claim ownership of the sun, which she can't because nobody is going to recognize it, there are all the problems that others have stated. You could be sued every time somebody gets a sunburn, for most skin cancer cases, somebody constantly being forced to wake up due to sunlight through their window, adverse weather and climate conditions, emissions from the sun interfering with electronic equipment or even destroying it, and many more things.

Even if she could somehow get passed all that there is the fact that since the sun shines for us whether we want it to or not we still wouldn't have to pay her anything because we don't control it or have an option at all whether we get sunlight. It would be the equivalent of your nearby neighbor's outside light being on at night and then having him try to charge you because you used it to see by when you stepped outside for fresh air for a second.