14 DAY TRIAL // We may have thought the Sun belongs to all of us. There’s also a law saying no nation can claim ownership of it, but nothing is said about one individual doing so. Enter Angeles Duran from Galicia, Spain, also known as the new owner of the Sun.
49-year-old Angeles has made the announcement that, starting from now on, she is the sole owner of the Sun, thanks to a legalized document naming her so, she says for El Mundo, as cited by the Daily Mail.
Inspired by the finding of the man who, a while back, named himself the owner of the Moon and most planets in our solar system, Mrs. Duran realized no one had claimed the biggest body on the sky as being theirs.
So she did it before anyone else could, and is even thinking about imposing a fee on all those who benefit from its light – roughly everyone on the face of the planet.
“Duran, 49, says that the Sun officially belongs to her now, having had the celestial body registered in her name at a local notary office,” the Mail reports. She even has the papers to prove it.
“Duran 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,” the tab further informs.
Mrs. Duran says she knew of the law that prevents a country from claiming ownership of the Sun but mentions nothing of individuals, so she just took advantage of that loophole.
“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,” she tells El Mundo.
According to the Mail, the paper Mrs. Duran had legalized names her “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.”
As the rightful owner of the Sun, Mrs. Duran has also come up with a way to use it to generate profit, by charging all those who benefit from it.
The money she gets from fees will be divided as follows: 50 percent to Spain’s government, 20 percent to the pensions fund, 10 percent to end world hunger, 10 percent to research and 10 percent for herself.
Right now, Mrs. Duran is thinking of ways to punish those who don’t cough up the money for using her Sun.