I’ll claim ownership of one of Saturn’s rings. A nice inner one, please.

After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner — a woman from Spain’s soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property. 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.”

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 kilometers.”

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 percent to the nation’s pension fund.

Mr. Hollywood Suntan, George Hamilton, would probably owe the value of a small nation if he had to pay for all the sunlight he’s used over the years.

Found by Brother Uncle Don




  1. Cap'nKangaroo says:

    Nuclear Regulatory Commission agent: “Yes Ma’am. I see your deed to the Sun. But what I need to see is your permit for a fusion reactor.”

  2. Nik (no C) says:

    If you can’t physically poop on it, you can’t own it.

  3. sargasso_c says:

    Next: Ownership of Elements. Anyone want to claim silicon?

  4. Uncle Dave says:

    #33: Hasn’t a huge percentage of LA already claimed it? Oops. Sorry. That’s silicone.


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