Following the lead taken by American individuals who have laid claim to ownership of the Moon and various planets including Mars, Venus and Mercury, a Russian has submitted an application for ownership of the worlds clouds.
Vladimir Osipiv believes that if he is successful with his claim he will be able to help prevent further environmental pollution by acting against polluters. He has stated that he will not make financial gains in the process.
Currently over 2 million people believe that they own a part of the moon and the basis of this belief is in the tradition (and current practice) of being allowed to claim land as your own, as carried out in the Wild West and by sailors.
I claim ownership of all the empty bits in between all the planets & moons everywhere, so if you want to fly through them you gotta pay a toll to ME!!! wheeeeeeeee this is too easy.
I claim ownership to the upper atmosphere so everyone has to pay my toll before they get to your bit. :p
The 'claim of ownership' mentality is crazy. Who has the authority to allow someone to lay claim to any unclaimed land, whether it be on earth or otherwise?? Its all part of the 'wealth creation' madness that is failing so miserably but looks to be continuing.
Well if you are, you know that one sentient planet that can change itself into any sort of planet it wants to? Well you guessed it, that one belongs to my dog, so hands off. It can talk too, the planet I mean, not the dog. Talking dogs, I mean seriously.
reminds me of the water companies in the UK who wanted to ban ppl from catching rainwater for their own use. They claimed that the rain was their property, until everyone said 'ok, compensate me for this water damage' etc. They soon shut the f*ck up ;)
So therefore we will stop the water evaporating and they will have no clouds. All your water belongs to us! Perhaps we should charge them a water toll!LOL
Hey! If people could claim land that was never their own I'd be willing to bet eventually stupid things like claiming the "Air" as ownership will eventually happen.
ridiculous. i could be sole ruler of a good-sized galaxy just by yelling it loud enough, but i've got to pay other people fees and taxes for living in my own house on my own land despite a bunch of signed and witnessed documents saying it belongs to me?
we all need mental help. we should look into that.
Really-- most people 'own' a piece of paper that tells them that the bank owns their home. The same for cars, credit-card purchases, etc. Yet they believe that they own these things.
The only thing you own is your body and mind. That, too, can be 'returned-to-sender' at any time.
Some people actually pay off their mortgage. If you don't have a drug habit (this includes alcohol, caffeine, cialis, codeine, hydrocodone, nicotine, oxycodone, oxycontin, phentermine, tadalafil, valium, viagra, vicoden, xanax, and other "prescription" drugs), it's actually really easy.
As for the topic, yeah, they should actually have to put stakes up there, and "settle" on in it for at least 10 years.
When I was a youngster, Wheaties, the Breakfast of Champions' had a promotion going.
In every box of Wheaties, there was a deed to one square inch of land in Alaska. By trading, card playing, and wheeling and dealing, I owned 172 square inches of land in Alaska.
Unfortunately, they were not contiguous.
I could never figure out what I could build on one square inch of land, so I sold the entire collection for a gigantic bag of marbles. (Then I sold the marbles.)
