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Originally posted by igottaknow How much does it cost to buy a planet?

by the looks of it, probably only Bill Gates can afford a planet

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Why did you waste your money

These star registry companies are basically scamming your money. They have no authority to assign names to a star.

"Here's the problem: Stars are named by the International Astronomical Union -- and they aren't selling. Names for stars (and most are given numbers) are assigned according to the internationally accepted rules of the IAU. Anyone else who claims to be able to name stars has no more legal standing than your neighbor's Rottweiler. When they say your star is going into a "registry," they mean whatever registry they made up -- not the official catalog that is kept by the IAU and used by all astronomers.
According to the IAU's Web site, "such 'names' have no formal or official validity whatever. Like true love and many of the other best things in human life, the beauty of the night sky is not for sale, but is free for all to enjoy."

If you want to give someone a star, save yourself some money: Go to the closest planetarium, pick a star you think is pretty and ask the astronomer for the coordinates. Then go home and make your own certificate on your own computer.

There's this guy that somehow registered the moon and I think some planets as his own personal property through some loophole in the legal system.

Now he's selling acres of moon land. Maybe you could buy some of that.


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Originally posted by dj_bas wow awesome!! that's way bigger than mine

Is this what you resort to when you've already given someone one of each chia pet?

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Originally posted by Cal There's this guy that somehow registered the moon and I think some planets as his own personal property through some loophole in the legal system. Now he's selling acres of moon land. Maybe you could buy some of that. here

You cant buy land on the moon. The aliens living underground the moon & earth would kick our ass's if we decided to settle the moon. The aliens werent even happy about us landing on the moon back in 1969. They gave NASA limited access to the moon & oberserved our every move while there. So its impossible.

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