Who owns the sun? Not this woman.

Angeles Duran of Spain has laid a claim to the Sun.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333776/Spanish-woman-Angeles-Duran-claims-owns-sun--plans-start-charging-ALL-users.html

And further to that, she wants to slap everyone who used the Sun and it's energy with a fee. Now She does plan on using half of the fee for a charity which is nice and all but how in the name of Zeus's sweat soaked jock strap does she plan on enforcing this?

How is she going to collect a fee from the over six billion people on this planet? I'd LOVE to see her try and collect from Al Qeada or the religious leaders of Iraq. Or North Korea! That'll be a fun one.

Further to that, how could she collect a fee for something that she has no way of stopping? Frankly if she did try, the first thing I'd say to her would be "Nope! Don't want to pay for the service. Don't really need the Sun. Go ahead and cut me off."

Also did this woman think of the downside? I could sue her for every time I got a sunburn. All the people who got Skin Cancer would be suing her. Everyone who got a really high electricity bill from having to run the AC in the summer to counter the effects of the Sun. Or every dashboard that cracked from the exposure. Anything that faded from solar exposure. Anything negative that can be attributed to the Sun would open her ass wide open for a lawsuit.

But she is damn lucky. While she thinks she is able to own the sun thanks to the Outer Space treaty signed in 1967, there is a passage that proves her dead ass wrong.

Her argument (and the argument for the chap selling deeded property on the moon) is that no government can lay claim to the celestial bodies out there. Their thinking is that the governments can not, but there is nothing that says that individuals can't.

Oh but there is chicky, there is.

Article VI states:

States Parties to the Treaty shall bear international responsibility for national activities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, whether such activities are carried on by governmental agencies or by non-governmental entities, and for assuring that national activities are carried out in conformity with the provisions set forth in the present Treaty. The activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty. When activities are carried on in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, by an international organization, responsibility for compliance with this Treaty shall be borne both by the international organization and by the States Parties to the Treaty participating in such organization.

or by non-governmental entities
This means people like her are covered under the same international treaty as the Governments of the world which signed it.

The activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty.
Meaning that even if she could lay claim to it, The Spanish Government (which did sign the treaty BTW) would have to back her and the odds of that happening are somewhere between "A whelk's chance in a supernova" and "None"

So nice try lady...nice try.