Buying the sun?

Question

I recently came across a website where you can buy stars and name them but I couldn't find the sun, did someone else already buy it?

Answer 1

You're not buying the star, you're just naming it after someone, which in my opinion is complete bullsh*t and some really smart people are just making money out of others' idiocy.
Who gave this website the permission to sell the names to people? I mean its not like anybody owns the stars, and last I checked the International Astronomical Union is the body that names stars, planets, and any other objects in the known universe, and they do not recognize any of these star-naming websites as official.

Oh yeah, there's also a company that sells land on the moon, haha. Dude you should buy that!

Answer 2

There is a website where they will "sell you a star," and should anyone ask them afterward, they will confirm that such and such a star belongs to you. I presume that the brighter the star, the more they charge.

The problem, of course, is that they do not own the stars, so they do not own the right to sell their names.

There is a more-or-less settled procedure by which the international community decides on names for celestial objects. Of the VERY large number of stars in the universe, only an infinitesimal number have names, so these star-mongers decided people would pay to have their own name attached to one, even by someone with no legal right to do so.

Many stars, the sun included, have been 'named' since classical times, and new names aren't appropriate. The sun, surely, has its own name in every language spoken on earth.

Having a star named after you is a joke. Treated as a joke, it might be worth a dollar or two.

Answer 3

The name of our sun is Sol; hence the SOLar System.

Yes, you can buy a star and have your name put on it, and my Aunt did it for my father years ago.

Right now we identify each astronomical object with a number and letter combination. Traditionally the discoverer gets to name the object, but who discovered the original constellations? Do we name the parts of Orion Orion-One, Orion-Two…? Then there are some stars like Altar that already have been named. The stars that are left to be named are the minor ones that are either too far away to be interesting or are too small to be interesting.

If we learn to fly through the stars like Star Trek then I don’t think someone is going to refer to those old records for the names of those stars. Do we know the names of all the Egyptians who worked on the pyramids? No, but we do know their foremen and architects.

There is also a project that lets you own 1 square foot of the Pacific Ocean, for a limited time (read the fine print). The problem is if a country finds oil underneath it and claims it they are not going to honor your claim. It is made through a private company not through the UN or any other international agreements. Currently, according to the UN no nation or person can own land in Antarctica or on another planet. You can own the base on top of it, and mine underneath it, collecting all the revenue; which pretty much means that you can own it in all but name. The question is more one of who is there and who is utilizing it.

There is a race to uncover new oil reserves in the melting artic sea that are suddenly accessible by modern off-shore oil drilling techniques. International territory is being claimed right and left, Russia planted a flag at the bottom of the Artic Ocean. The true right to ownership will come to those that use it. For example no one claims that Exxon or Shell Oil owns any part of the Gulf of Mexico, but it belongs to whoever gets the oil out of the ground. Shell is a Dutch company and Exxon is an American company, but we haven’t seen Holland or British Petroleum (BP) trying to claim part of the Gulf of Mexico.

Answer 4

someone in fact tried and was about to claim license fee's to those using it.
what a crap .. of course that didn't worked out that good.

according to some UN-treaty celestial bodies don't belong to someone. Therefor selling property on it is ...well... obviously a good place to make money from those who don't know that they are part of some sort of fraud.

i remember a story about someone 'buying' the entire comet/asteroid Eros and welcomed the spacecraft which landed on it. what a fun .. let's see if he has intentions to ask Nasa if he can sell the probe as scrap.
from what i remember he never got a response.

Answer 5

You know it's 'for entertainment only', right? That they don't actually have the legal right to sell you anything? That you're just buying a piece of paper?

In that case, just print yourself out one that said you bought the Sun. It's a lot cheaper and has just as much meaning.

Answer 6

Hmmm. Maybe the sun is too big to buy.. Or maybe they should sell it by acres.. lol.. that'd be great.. Maybe the sun should belong to everyone...itd pry cost like 150 trillion dollers..
hhmmmm..

Answer 7

I own it.

Any Bozo that can create a Web site can sell star names. You just have to find suckers willing to send you their money.

Answer 8

Yes, it was bought by Poland in 1951.

Answer 9

Not for sale;.... I had a hard time putting up the 'no tresspassing" sign, but I'm willing to lease it to you for the right price.