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Spanish woman owns the sun; ...plans to make money from those who use it
Topic Started: Nov 30 2010, 01:00 PM (299 Views)
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Spanish Woman Claims She Now Owns Sun

Updated: Friday, 26 Nov 2010, 2:16 PM EST
Published : Friday, 26 Nov 2010, 2:16 PM EST


(AFP) - 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.

She would dedicate another 10 percent to research, another 10 percent to ending world hunger -- and would keep the remaining 10 percent herself.

"It is time to start doing things the right way, if there is an idea for how to generate income and improve the economy and people's wellbeing, why not do it?" she asked.

Copyright 2010 AFP. All rights reserved.
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Frank_W
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Interesting... According to the laws of the sun though, she has to be a resident for at least three months out of the calendar year. :D
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kenny
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Made up but not agreed with.
Agreement's important.
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sue
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I live in a soggy place too, and can relate how the lack of sunshine can bring out the peevishness in a person.

You go girl. :wave:
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KlavierBauer
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Spain will be one of her big customers, as Spain is one of the big proponents of parabolic mirrors for sun collection and solar power.
In fact, Spain uses several versions of this technology in different ways...
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Frank_W
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Spanish is a pretty tough language, though:

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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
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I'm suing her for a basal cell carcinoma I had a while back.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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