Diamond Implant on Forehead, Purchasing a Planet: This is How Wealthy Man Lil Uzi Vert Demonstrates His Enormous Wealth.
Lil Uzi Vert, a wealthy rapper, once again proves that showing off mansions and real estate is old news. He shocked everyone with his intention to become the first person in the world to purchase a planet outside of Earth.
Grimes, the girlfriend of the famous aerospace billionaire Elon Musk, revealed that the legal process for Lil Uzi Vert to acquire a planet for himself is currently underway.
The wealthy man, who once affixed an 11-carat pink diamond worth $24 million to his forehead, has submitted the necessary paperwork to register ownership of the planet WASP-127b.
Rapper Lil Uzi Vert.
This planet, located outside our solar system, is 1.4 times the size of Jupiter and was discovered in 2016. The exoplanet WASP-127b orbits the star WASP-127, which is approximately 522.6 light-years away from the Solar System. It takes over four days on Earth to complete an orbit around its host star.
This news quickly sparked a debate on social media about whether an individual can actually own a planet outside of Earth.
Although many have claimed ownership or expressed a desire to own land beyond Earth over the past few decades, space law experts argue that it is impossible to own any territory in outer space.
Frans Von der Dunk, a Professor of Space Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, stated: “If someone sells a planet to Lil Uzi Vert or he thinks he can own this planet, it is impossible or only occurs through fraud.”
Sharing the same view, Ram Jakhu, director of the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University, pointed out that the United Nations Outer Space Treaty prohibits all nations and citizens from claiming ownership of territory in outer space.
The exoplanet WASP-127b that the rapper wants to buy.
Ram Jakhu noted that the simplest way for anyone wishing to own land in space is to collect pieces of meteoroids. In 2015, the U.S. government began allowing companies to collect materials from outer space for research purposes.
Over the decades, there have been several instances of individuals claiming ownership of planets in space.
In 1996, space activist Greg Nemitz sued NASA for landing on an asteroid that he claimed was his. In 2012, Sylvio Langvein filed a lawsuit in Quebec, asserting that he owned planets in the solar system. Both cases were dismissed.
If one day planets become commodities that can be bought and sold, their value would exceed hundreds of trillions of USD.
