I am now the Supreme chancellor of Titan, europa, and Io. IF hope could do it so can I. I don’t have to register because I am declaring my independent statehood!

Why Supreme Chancellor, exactly? This would seem to be the title of a traditionally elected position. If you are going to declare yourself something, why not go for a title that sounds more imperialistic. How about something long and mysterious sounding, like "First Son of Heaven," or "Father of the Three Moons?"

Grandmaster Aporetic

or, King Elessar, Isildur's heir. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]

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I am the new emperor of the sun. I will sell land at .05 cents per acre. This is a special for this board!! It is regularily .5 cents per acre!!!

One stipulatiopn. The land must be developed so it will not loose its resale value. So all buyers must develop the land and show me information on its growth potetntial. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]


P.S. I am in thw works for owning the entire asteroid belt, but Marvin the Martian is giving one heck of a legal battle in court.

P.S.S. All those who think i have a overactive imagination raise your hand.

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"It takes Thousands to fight a battle for a mile, Millions to hold an election for a nation, but it only takes One to change the world." - Dan Sandler 2002

Oh, so small, so small...
I am Queen of the Galaxy!

Hey homeboy/girl, at .05 cents an acre, I don't think there is any way you could devalue the property. You could stack up Milli Vanilli albums and rancid cyanide soaked fruit cakes ten stories high on your property and.....oh wait, you were talking about the sun, nevermind. But just so you know, you'll probably sell more acres without the developement stipulation. Why complicate a viable con?

Hey, I never knew neb was a girl... guess I'm to stereotypical

Still small. Master of Time and Space seems to capture it, though.

I hereby claim the entire universe; past, present, and future; plus all parallel universes, past universes, future universes, imaginary universes, and universes imagined by the inhabitants of imaginary universes.

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Guy. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] I was just trying to make it as silly as possible. Only a moron would buy land on the sun, what would you do? go there for a good tan? Hmm...A new place for snow birds to visit. Get them away from florida, tourists can't drive if their life depended on it. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

I would not even do that, the albums might cause a chain reaction causing the sun to go nova. But then again Britney spears could use some tips from them. She lipsincs horribly. Have you seen her latest video's? ??


Well since this guy has bought the planets, how about buying the rights to the photons eminatiing off of it in our direction. Sure he can buy the planets and sell its land for profits, but you can't look at them without paying me!

But i think the coolest thing to own in the universe would be a nebula. For some reason i have always loved pics of nebulas. They are just very beautiful and colourful. Yah you can't make a profit from them (except from basic minerals) but they would make the tourist spot to go in the universe. Or maybe a super cluster of galaxies. That would be cool too.

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With this thread, Bad Astronomy has now become Ludicrous Astronomy! And you people are so greedy - I'm content to maintain my position as absolute ruler of my apartment. And lo! The cockroaches shall scamper in terror before me!

Not at all. Like I said, you're just greedy! And pssst! - P.S.S. stands for Post Script Script [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Still stereotyping there Smaug! Was Priscilla (Queen of the Desert) a girl? Okay, bad analogy, Priscilla was actually the bus, wasn't she...

Alright, I know, Neb's gender identity is not a topic for the BB. Sorry Neb! [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Cheers.

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Nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness. ...in the principles of evolution we have had our answer: of men elsewhere... there will be none, forever. - Loren Eisely, The Immense Journey, 1956.

I claim dominion over everything that has already been mentioned in this post. Oh yeah, every soul in all those universes mentioned before, too.

Supreme Overlord of all that Is, all that Was, and all that Will Be Jet

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I declare myself explicitly as the owner of the solar corona. Everyone who uses the space or the solar radiation of the corona must pay me a rent (0,01 euro/sec) and a fee for the radiation (0,01 euro/kJ), whether you use it or waste it.

Note: the solar corona extends beyond the orbit of Pluto. Possibly, Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft become the first things for which the owner doesn't have to pay for the radiation fee.

It starts NOW!

I'd like to claim hell if that's available. I here there's many interesting people there. I could cattle-prod them just to hear them yell.

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If you're not part of the solution then you're part of the precipitate.

Oh, by the way. You can own the sun but the photons belong to me. I must insist on royalties.

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If you're not part of the solution then you're part of the precipitate.

That's OK, I made the same mistake with a different poster a while back.

Comparing me to a bus? You know that has connotations, don't you? [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_evil.gif[/img]

(I know, I know, I'm just teasing back.)

I am now owner of a spherical shell of space, starting at a radius of 50,000km from the center of the Earth and having the thickness of 1km. I know it's not worth anything exactly, but anyone wanting to visit or send vehicles to any other body in the universe must pay toll to me to pass through my realm.

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Dibs on the quantum foam!

I fear you have all become too proud and vain and I may have to end this experiment.

You may all own big important things, but just to teach you a lesson I might have to stop dancing.

Shiva

Oh, you proud, proud mortals.

Don't you know that Coyote is always out there, and he's always hungry?

Keep the pretty little rocks and balls of gas...

NOTICE OF CLAIM

I. DECLARATION

A. I, Gramma Loreto (hereinafter referred to as CLAIMANT), hereby lay claim to SPACE and all non-stellar and non-planetary material therein.

B. Said SPACE is to include all areas and dimensions (both known and yet to be discovered) in and of the universe in toto as well as all concomitant materials of a non-stellar and non-planetary nature.

C. CLAIMANT reserves all rights and priveliges pertaining to SPACE, to wit:
(1) Rights to mining, recovery, salvage, and other methods used to exploit natural and artificial resources are sole right of CLAIMANT.
(2) Insofar as Zero Point Energy (hereinafter referred to as ZPE) permeates all space through various processes, and therefore, recovery of said ZPE at any point equates to the recovery from any other point in the universe, CLAIMANT asserts and claims all ZPE throughout the universe, regardless of existing or future claims or easements.

II. EXEMPTIONS

A. In deference to existing and future claims of stellar and planetary bodies, I herein grant spatial easements to said claimholders as follows:

(1) Planets: 1 AU
(2) Stars: 1 ParSec
(3) Galaxies: As in (1) and (2) above. All other intervening SPACE within galactic boundaries defaults to CLAIMANT.
(4) Special considerations:
(a) When two or more claims have conflicting easements, the boundaries of said easements shall be at a distance halfway between the centers of mass of all bodies concerned.
(b) All spatial easements are fixed. At no time will the intrinsic expansion of the universe indicate or imply the proportional expansion of easements.

III. CONCESSIONS, TAXES, AND ORDINANCES

A. Right of Way is hereby granted for ordinary uses and legal commerce. Commerical operations taking place outside of spatial easements must contact CLAIMANT to arrange fair and equitable use fees.

B. With due concern for public safety and the existing laws of physics, CLAIMANT declares that the universal speed limit shall remain at c unless otherwise dictated or allowed by other principles yet to be discovered. Gravitational rates of acceleration will be determined locally.

C. No loud music.

IV. STATEMENT OF LIABILITY

A. CLAIMANT makes no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the suitability of the space within or adjacent to any easement for any purpose intended or desired.

B. Faults, deficiencies, anomolies, disasters and other unsatisfactory conditions or events existing or ocurring within easements are soley the responsibility of the respective claimholders.

C. CLAIMANT shall not be responsible for damages to persons or property within any easement which are caused by events within another easement. Such claims for damage will be made against the respective claimholder.

Signed,

Loreto

I claim this ham sandwich on my desk as part of the glorious Vandelous Empire! *munch* Hey, at least I got my wish…

(Can’t post this without due credit to Hobbes and Bill Watterson)

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Gramma loreto, you sure you are not a lawyer? Well you say you work for the govt. and writing out that many lines of text to say that you own the space in-between stuff seems very governmental. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

I agree with no loud music. I love in a collge student complex (well i am a student!!) and we have these rich kids "wannabe from the hood" punks. Who play their bass all the way up in hopes of shattering all the windows in the complex or dmagaing their hearing beyond repair, whichever comes first. The sad part is, is that the music gets louder each year because they get deafer each yer. Uhhgg...[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_frown.gif[/img] Well i will step off my shoe box now and get back on topic.

Oh and by the way i just baught all of the rights to all of your claims, so HA!! Beat that!!

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GIYUL :-)
"It takes Thousands to fight a battle for a mile, Millions to hold an election for a nation, but it only takes One to change the world." - Dan Sandler 2002

Nah, I'm not a lawyer or anything even close...although I've done just a little bit of legal writing. I am, as you mentioned, a minor functionary with the FAA. I also have more than 20 years of experience with military writing...which is a different animal altogether.

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Cheers...Loreto

Can you people please agree on who owns what??? I need to know in case I have an accident somewhere and have to file a suit!

I own all the judges, lawyers, and juries.

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But if you are injured on the moon or mars, will you be able to sue? That is the question.

Real question: This might sound stupid, but hear me out. Does any country own any machinery on other planets or in space? Like do the companies who made them own the satelites in orbit or are they not officially owned? Does the U.S. own the military satelites in space or do they just protect them?

Also if we plant a base on the moon or mars does it become that countries soil? Like the way embasy's work(we are on the same topic, sort of)?

One final question: Who officially owns the ISS? Canada, The U.S., russia, and the European Space Agency? or the U.N.?

Thanks!!!

P.S. who owns uranus?

oh i just had to say it, "yikes"
runs away from the incoming bottles and rocks
"ouch, o.k. I take it back " [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

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"It takes Thousands to fight a battle for a mile, Millions to hold an election for a nation, but it only takes One to change the world." - Dan Sandler 2002

all of the above. + japan and france and a few others. - the UN though.

IMHO, satellites belong to the company or country that made them or put them up there. I think that the marine salvage approach of being able to claim anything that was sitting empty at the time would not apply - assuming you had the means to go up and board an orbiting object.

There is an international treaty that states that astronauts who return to earth will be returned unharmed to their nation of origin should they be forced to land in a country outwith their own. Not sure if this applies to any vehicle that they return with though.

Liglats.

P.S. When we understand the uniiverse, and it is replaced with something infinitely more complex, I lay claim to the replacement.

P.P.S Unless this has already happened.