To call Dennis Hope the richest man in the Solar System is not pie-in-the-sky daydreaming…after all, he DOES own most of the Wandering Stars, Io, a Planet-Formerly-Known-As-Pluto…and he can certainly sell you a plot of land just covered with Lunar Swirls. He OWNS the Moon, you see. The 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty said no country could own the moon, but it says nothing about individuals. So, seeing a stellar opportunity, Hope wrote a letter to the United Nations saying the moon was his and asked the group to come up with a legal reason why an individual could not claim ownership of the moon. He never heard back. Moon baller!!
–Is Dennis cool with all the LITTER we left on his Moon…I wonder. Dick pics. Laser reflectors. Moon buggies. A tiny, metal…doll, totem-thingie. Is this…doll…art? Hmmm…if it is, it isn’t very GOOD art…just ask the artist: “I’ve done better. It is not the best van Hoeydonck.” Van Hoeydonck was thrilled that his art was pointing the way to a human destiny beyond Earth and expected that he would soon be “bigger than Picasso.” In reality, van Hoeydonck’s lunar sculpture, called Fallen Astronaut, inspired not celebration but scandal. We didn’t even know it was “there” until today’s show…so…..js.
–You don’t need to be Tony Stark to wear this suit, but you might need to be him to afford it. British inventor Richard Browning, who came to prominence last year with the unveiling of his new “Iron Man”-like suit, has revealed that the suit is finally available for sale — at a whopping price tag of £340,000 ($443,428). On Wednesday, Browning made a demonstration of the suit taking it on a short flight around the luxury department store Selfridges, in London. Yeah…no. He didn’t. #SuitGravy