A plot on Sun, anyone?

IT seems that property business is really going out of this world as Spanish woman Maria Angeles Duran who, back in 2010, declared that she owned the Sun and intended to bill all solar users for its use (yes, that really did happen). Incredibly the Spanish courts recognised her claim now, but as of yet no solar panel owners have received any invoices from her.

So just when Maria started to sell plots of the Sun on eBay, the company blocked her account after realising she was selling plots of our local star for one Euro per metre square.

However, a magistrate’s court in Madrid declared that Maria has the right to take them to court. Ms Duran claims she is using a loophole in the ‘Outer Space Treaty’ that states no countries may claim sovereignty over celestial bodies, however, it doesn’t specify individuals cannot stake a claim to planets and stars.

Maria claims she has received 600 orders worth 1,200 Euros (£883) before the page was closed by eBay who deemed it a scam. She is now claiming 10,000 Euros (£7357) compensation from the company.

SCIENTISTS have found a tiny, pink octopus which looks like a cross between a Pokemon and a puppy. In fact, he’s melted so many hearts at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, California that they now want to call him ‘Adorabilis’ — which actually sounds like a Pokemon, too.

Postdoctoral researcher Stephanie Bush says, “As someone that’s describing the species you get to pick what the specific name is. One of the thoughts I had was making it Opisthoteuthis Adorabilis — because they’re really cute.”