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Blue and Yellow Potato said:
I guess a better example is random people selling "deeds" to an acre on the moon or for naming rights to stars. Or even letting you buy a lordship online. NFTs are in the same realm as these. They're created from something with no real value. So that people can say they own something (that they don't really own) and maybe hope to sell it for more in the future.


I don't get why people would "buy a star name" from some random company that has no official right to name a star.... But people do it all the time. A bit like these NFTs.
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It's the gift you get for the person who has everything and I guess they don't care whether it's real or not. Talking about naming things, I have always wanted to name a zoo animal. Weird?
 
Seems to me that the people most likely to profit from this will be copyright lawyers.
Most people have no idea how copyright works and they could be breaking it l,r and c with this one.
 
johnsonsbaby said:
It's the gift you get for the person who has everything and I guess they don't care whether it's real or not. Talking about naming things, I have always wanted to name a zoo animal. Weird?
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I dunno. I'm sure there are lots of scientists who'd love a comet or a frog in the amazon bearing their name. I'm sure it's quite a common one.
 
Just in case it wasn't clear, I don't want a zoo animal named after me. I would like to choose a name for a newborn panda or kangaroo or any animal really. I don't know where it came from but I have a bit of a name fetish eg I read every name at the end of a film.
 
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johnsonsbaby said:
Just in case it wasn't clear, I don't want a zoo animal named after me. I would like to choose a name for a newborn panda or kangaroo or any animal really. I don't know where it came from but I have a bit of a name fetish eg I read every name at the end of a film.
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What would you call this one?
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johnsonsbaby said:
Just in case it wasn't clear, I don't want a zoo animal named after me. I would like to choose a name for a newborn panda or kangaroo or any animal really. I don't know where it came from but I have a bit of a name fetish eg I read every name at the end of a film.
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It's a good job you don't want it named johnsonsbaby - it might get the real father a bit worried.
 
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Nozzer said:
I don't think there are that many comets in the Amazon.
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This just depends if you look up or down.

Simple science really.

usually botanists look down at their feet and astrophysicists look up at the stars.

And yes, you tend to see less but that shouldn't deter an Amazonian from looking for comets.

#don'tshattertheirdreams
 
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