Monday, July 30, 2007

New record in appropriation of no-man’s territories is set by Ukrainians

Today the richest earth inhabitants live in the city of Donetsk, Ukraine (ex-USSR).
No, Forbes magazine hasn’t published new ratings yet, where local oligarchs would press Bill Gates a bit. But enterprising Ukrainians have owned the whole outer space outside the Milky Way, our native galaxy.
As you know, in 1980 American Dennis Hope declared himself the owner of all planets in our Solar system but the Earth. This property is evaluated in volume of about 800 trillion US dollars.
Today, thanks to Hope’s Lunar Embassy (1), about 3.5 million people in the world own ground areas on Moon, Mars, Venus and Mercury. There are many pop stars, politicians and even NASA employees among them.
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