Woman Claims to Own the Sun
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Yes, let's give her some money so she can plant her feet on the sun, I'd pay to see that happen.uppitycracker said:
I guess this will be my new excuse for pirating. I'm not paying for something I can have for free because the copyright changes hands. I'm also pretty sure god filed his claim on the sun in the 70's s a protest on the hippies claiming you can't own property. Oh that god, he's the biggest troll I know.
Most likely this will turn out as a legal precedent just showing that a person can't own an entire celestial body or some such, but I have one question for her. If she owns the sun can I sue her for skin cancer?
I think its kind of funny, and completely harmless. Owning a river doesn't mean you also own all the water in a lake, so naturally owning the sun means that you don't own things like it's light, its gravitational pull, etc. Unless a random 49 year old women has space travel and the ability to do something on the sun, ownership is completely meaningless. Even if she did own the sun, there is nothing to do except say, "I own the sun". So people can lighten up, laugh, and appreciate that some random lady did something funny.
Yeah, every intelligent person in the world telling her to shove it up her ass.Gigaguy64 said:
I'm suing for skin cancer, sunburns, sun damage, unsightly moles . . .
Under rational property law, you can't just claim something that was lying around as your property unless you've actually "proven" it in some manner. For instance, in the U.S. you had to work the land for so long before it was officially your property.
So, she can say that she's "claimed" the sun, but she doesn't own it until she actually *takes* ownership in some way, which I don't see as much of a risk.
Under rational property law, you can't just claim something that was lying around as your property unless you've actually "proven" it in some manner. For instance, in the U.S. you had to work the land for so long before it was officially your property.
So, she can say that she's "claimed" the sun, but she doesn't own it until she actually *takes* ownership in some way, which I don't see as much of a risk.
I can't believe what I am reading. I saw this happen with the Moon, and I didn't like it then either. I think people have to start stepping up against greedy people like this. The planets around us should be protected, so as not to be able to be claimed at all. Especially the sun. Then again, this definitely would make a sad panda out of anyone.
Let alone government, military and aerospace technology damage caused by bi-decade coronal mass ejections and pentacentennial solar storms.Unrulyhandbag said:
Those are always fun for non-EMP protected equipment.
It's cases like this that show there really needs to be a 'common sense' aspect to the law, rather than rigidly applying it to every situation. Seriously, who gives a fuck if there's some loophole that allows this woman to do this? Anyone can see that the notion of someone charging for use of the sun is utterly ridiculous, so why hunt around for technical, legal reasons for why it can't be so? Instead of trying to apply generalizations and inspecific laws to this situation, why not just use some goddamn common sense?
Yeah, but then you're just begging for freaky shit to happen to it.ReaperzXIII said:
I'd call it Rupert.