In January, a Quebec man named Sylvio Langvein walked into acourthouse in Canada and filed a suit declaring himself owner ofthe planets in our solar system, four of Jupiter s moons, and theinterplanetary space between. By way of explanation, Langvein said he wanted to collect planets the same way that others collecthockey cards, and also prevent China from establishing outpostsabove his head. The judge overseeing the case, Alain Michaud, dismissed it inMarch, calling Langvein a quarrelsome litigant whose paranoidactions were an abuse of the Canadian legal system. (This wasLangvein s 45th lawsuit including four motions to the SupremeCourt of Canada since 2001). The case is bizarre, but not unprecedented.
Every now and then, someone thinks no one has claimed the moonbefore, and then rushes to claim it, wrote Virgiliu Pop, a spacelaw researcher at the Romanian Space Agency, in an email to Wired."Humankind has a short collective memory, so the claimant isable to create some buzz before the story dies out
Every now and then, someone thinks no one has claimed the moonbefore, and then rushes to claim it, wrote Virgiliu Pop, a spacelaw researcher at the Romanian Space Agency, in an email to Wired."Humankind has a short collective memory, so the claimant isable to create some buzz before the story dies out