Poll: Owning the sun.

[TheSEPH88]

First one to plant a flag on its surface has my vote.

Ok I guess I could agree to that. XD

 

[Exile714]

Ownership implies a right to refuse use/entry. That right must be enforceable. Enforcing a right to refuse use falls on the country which legally controls the property.

Until a country can control the space around the sun, nobody can claim ownership.

 

[DanDeFool]

Ownership implies a right to refuse use/entry. That right must be enforceable. Enforcing a right to refuse use falls on the country which legally controls the property.

Until a country can control the space around the sun, nobody can claim ownership.

Exactly.

To paraphrase Noah Antwiler in his Highlander 2 review, what is she going to do if we don't pay up? Turn the sun off?

Sean Connery: "Now you are being ridiculous."

 

[DanDeFool]

EDIT: Double-Post

 

[Polaris19]

How can you charge someone for using the Sun?!?!?!?

Thats like charging someone a right to live!!

We really are getting stupider....

 

[skeliton112]

I said that she can own the sun, as the sun is an object like any other. If we can own anything else then we can own the sun. She cannot, however, tax people to use something that we have no way to stop using or that she has no control over.

 

[mrpenguinismyhomeboy]

LOL. She is batshit crazy.

 

[Tsunimo]

Ha!
I love every bit of it...
well, except the part were she charges us, and then when we are all broke we are forced to live in caves...

 

[Lilani]

I wonder if she'll ever pay a visit.

 

[klaynexas3]

you know, maybe i could claim ownership of the earth. then i can tax her for using up resources and oxygen and shit. or i could kick her off the planet if she doesn't give up the sun. i own the earth, i can do whatever i want.

 

[kurtzy23]

I think we're all mad because she thought of this before we did.

Your right

 

[FollowUp]

It's not a big deal, it's not like she'll actually get any money. And at least she didn't put herself up on a giant screen over New York demanding subservience.

 

[Mikaze]

GG crazy spanish woman, gg.

 

[zehydra]

You shouldn't have had both the option for "no" AND "this is stupid", lol.

 

[DP155ToneZone]

As I said in the other thread.

She would sooner be murdered than have anyone pay her.

6 billion people will not pay for a sun.

She would sooner be killed.

 

[Custard_Angel]

So she wants to collect royalties on everyone on the planet i.e. she wants to issue global taxation.

Countries have a hard enough time making their own people pay taxes. How is a single person going to issue taxation demands to all 6.75 billion people on Earth?

Good. Fucking. Luck.

This woman is almost as crazy as the "Curtis got slapped" woman.

 

[Eisenfaust]

owning the sun? who really cares, it's like naming stars... it'll have no grand cosmic effect or anything... but if she wants to charge for it? she'll get shot so hard she won't be able to claim much...

just wait, just see her wait until someone sues her for melanoma's and other skin cancers and everything... she'll get sued by greenpeace for causing global warming... she'll get sued by the guy who owns neptune for not being bright enough to warm that planet...

she will get sued so hard she'll spend the next 50 years going from courtroom to courtroom

 

[silv]

What a stupid person, "I own the sun".
That made my day

 

[Choppaduel]

No & this is stupid

 

[Apocalypse Tank]

I don't care about the purchase. I just hope not too much recognition is given to her so she is put on international broadcasting or get millions of hits on youtube.

Seriously, how much was the sun anyways and how stupid was the institution that sold the rights?