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When I was married I registered my wife's name on a star. Can I change it now? Can I sell it? I was thinking about selling the naming rights on "Craig's List" but I don't want to run into trouble. What are the legalities of this? Could my ex come back and sue me?
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IMHO posted:
When I was married I registered my wife's name on a star. Can I change it now? Can I sell it? I was thinking about selling the naming rights on "Craig's List" but I don't want to run into trouble. What are the legalities of this? Could my ex come back and sue me?
^^^^ This is not what I was expecting with that title.
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You have to travel to the star to change its name.
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Send me $20 and I'll fix the entries in the star registry for you.
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Since the ISR has no legal rights to name astronomical bodies, and any names assigned by it have no legal standing anywhere with any recognized astronomical or governmental bodies......you can do whatever the hell you want with it, since the "name" you bought doesn't exist outside of a book published by some guy who lives in Illinois.
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Only the IAU (International Astronomical Union) has the right to name any stars or other celestial bodies in space.
So yeah, like Ptilk said, you just paid to have a fancy sheet of paper in a fancy book that doesn't matter, sort of like the Who's Who books they used to sell to high school students, or those guys who claim you can buy an acre of land on the moon.
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The Outpost is a humbling place to get a reality check 
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IMHO posted:
The Outpost is a humbling place to get a reality check
Don't know why but that just made me LMFAO literally...
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Dude are you serious? lol
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You should double down and see if you can get a black hole named after her.
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No entity and every entity has equal rights to name anything.
I personally have just renamed your star to "IMHO is a retard" and that name has equal standing with the name you purchased. In fact I suspect in a survey of Outposters you'd find my name actually has more standing.
If you want to change the name of the star I suggest you simply announce that you have changed the name of the star.
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Sansfear posted:
You should double down and see if you can get a black hole named after her.
 
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__Bonk__ posted:
You have to travel to the star to change its name.:D
Nobody on Earth has any more 'right' than anyone else to name anything in space they haven't been physically on.
Just sell the 'star name' title to someone with the same name.
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