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Woman claims ownership of the sun

By T.K. Randall
March 20, 2011 · Comment icon 76 comments

Image Credit: NASA/ESA
Angeles Duran claims she has officially registered ownership of the sun and will be charging for its use.
"There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law," she says. "I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first."
Angeles Duran, a 49-year-old woman from Salvaterra do Mino, Spain, has gone one step further: She's gone to her local notary public and claimed ownership of the Sun.


Source: ABC News | Comments (76)




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Comment icon #67 Posted by AlienDan 13 years ago
LOL The very concept of "owning" any kind of natural land is already stupid, but the sun!? LOL
Comment icon #68 Posted by crtDzyn 13 years ago
What exactly did she have notarized anyway? A napkin with a picture of the sun in crayon? I wanna see the deed.
Comment icon #69 Posted by Desert Man 13 years ago
According to the International Space Treaty of 1968 (?), no earth nation can claim any piece of outer space including the Moon and other planets of our solar system. The treaty declares space travel to be open to all nations, and there should be no war waged in outer space, esp. during the cold war and the intense exploratory "space race" at the time. The US and USSR were the first nations to land spacecraft, primarily unmanned, on both the Moon (six of them are the NASA Apollo program, nos. 11-17, all men were Americans) and the Viking and Pathfinder missions on Mars, the Soviets' Venera on V... [More]
Comment icon #70 Posted by Crow Woman 13 years ago
You cannot own something that owns you. You can believe all you want that you can own it, but you will never own it. We evolved the way we did thanks to the climate of earth that was influenced by the sun, and so in this case, the sun is the one that owns us even though it is not alive. It nurtured us, and it keeps us from floating aimlessly through space. Same with the moon. The moon owns us too, for it is the one that has influenced us since we came up with religion. It's gravitational pull, its effects on tides. Same with the earth, can't actually own that, cause it really owns you because ... [More]
Comment icon #71 Posted by Finity 13 years ago
The sun is a health hazard, I demand it undergo a full safety evaluation! But on a more "seious" note, how does she intend on stopping people from "using" the sun and telling her to FO?
Comment icon #72 Posted by Mahtu 13 years ago
Uh, what's she gonna do if I don't pay, cut it off? uh duh.....
Comment icon #73 Posted by Verneph 13 years ago
This is the single, most stupidest thing anyone has ever done. She is now responsible for EVERYTHING the sun does. People will start suing her, and rightly so, for things like drought, skin cancer, sun burn, global warming, destroying natural habitats and because of this, she has legally committed innumerable crimes against not only humanity but the earth itself. Besides, she will never get everyone on earth to agree to a user agreement. I got sunburn a few summers ago. I demand medical compensation as there is no warning label on the sun telling me I can be burned! She's an idiot. No one owns... [More]
Comment icon #74 Posted by Anvil 13 years ago
Uh, what's she gonna do if I don't pay, cut it off? uh duh..... Funny.. Really no one owns the sun, but still the jokes in this thread demonstrate typical human nature towards ownership, and the greed works both ways - those who want to sue and those who want to own/create charges and conditions. Thankfully it can't exist for planets or nature.
Comment icon #75 Posted by reblexx 13 years ago
Yeah! And i'm the owner of the galaxy so pay your SUN's rent.
Comment icon #76 Posted by DigitalDreamer 13 years ago
I own anyhing you can see feel or touch,There now i sound just as stupid as the woman who claims to own the sun


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