“Would you want to own a property that’s older than the dinosaurs? Along the lines of billions of years old? Well, a woman in Spain has laid claim to the sun.
Yes, you read that correctly: THE sun in the sky — the 4.5-billion-year-old celestial giver of light and heat and well, life to all things on Earth, is now owned by Angeles Duran, or so she asserts after legally registering our closest star with a notary public, the global news agency Agence France-Presse reports.
Duran told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that she decided to try to become the sole owner of the sun when she heard about how Nevada entrepreneur Dennis Hope posted a similar claim in 1980 with the United Nations for ownership of the moon and proceeded to sell acres of lunar real estate — not exactly a traditional holiday stocking stuffer.
Hope has so far sold more than 2 million 1-acre slabs of the moon, which he offers for $22.49 on his Lunar Embassy website. He’s even expanded his available properties to include prime areas of Mercury, Venus and Mars.
In her quest to own the sun, Duran has used the same loophole as Hope by getting around the United Nations Outer Space Treaty, adopted in 1967, that stipulates “outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.”"
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Can she charge for solar energy?
If she’s successful, I’d suggest that anyone who has ever suffered sunburn, or, for that matter, skin cancer, sues her.
And there was me thinking Rupert Murdoch owned that
Did she get a surveyor to give it the once over? You want to be sure it doesn’t go supernova in the next 20 years or you’ll never get back anything on your investment.
Haha creative, but to see that guy makes all that money selling spots on the moon makes me angry. All the proceeds of sales of any inter-space planet should be fr charity and charity only, not for some corporate lunatic to get rich and powerful.
@Steve Owen – I have very mild photo-sensitivity. Get me her email and I’ll send her a Babelfish translation of my complaint followed by threat of legal action.
hey! that sun is MINE! she should get her own damn sun!
While it is true that anyone can lay claim to owning the sun or moon, what good does it do you.
You would have to literally stake your claim, actually go there, fence off a bit & put up a sign saying keep off my land.
That’s not feasible as far as the moon is concerced & it’s impossible to do with the sun, this woman has more money than sense.
Do you think she’d like to buy a lamp ? It’s magic !
@ Steve- LOL! I’m all for it
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About Mr. Hope, he must be the greatest salesperson ever. Either that, or it’s proof that people will throw their money away on anything. Seriously, there’s no way he can own the moon is there?
I agree with Elephant Child. What is the point in owning it? You can’t sell it for real estate property. You can’t rent it out to people. I mean, why doesn’t she buy something a little more realistic like Mars. NASA was planning on sending people on a one-way trip to Mars. That way, you can demand rent or sell plots of Mars to the colonialists. Hmmm…that gives me an idea…BACK OFF! MARS IS MINE!!!
not sure how you can buy something that it is not owned by anyone…
So she gets to print out certificates and sell them for a few quid a piece as novelty pressies.
Nobody takes it seriously and so it isn’t really ripping anybody off. No harm, no foul.
Well she will just have to go ahead and turn it off then, cause I’m not paying!