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  • Is lake Michigan taken?
    by swader999
  • Joke's on them, I already own a star from the International Star Registry 8)
    by baggachipz
  • Good try, federal agency, good try.
    by PowerElectronix
  • If I adopt a coordinate, does that make me a Space Lord or Space Baron?
    by kotaKat
  • I got to say that while i had heard about jwst every week or so on how it was getting delayed and being overrun with costs, I didnt hear anything about Nancy grace. They were similar in price too.
    by nashashmi
  • My exclusive coordinates are whatever space I currently occupy.
    by NoGravitas
  • Maybe we could map a discrete GUID to some amount of cubic volume of the universe and say that you 'own' that GUID and cubic volume of space.

    Referencing how many possible GUID can exist:

    The total number of theoretically possible GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers) is 2¹²⁸, which equals exactly 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456. This is approximately 3.4 × 10³⁸ (340 undecillion) unique values

    a really quick calculation says that if you assigned every cubic area of the universe (ignoring that it's spherical?!) to a single GUID, each GUID would 'own' a cube of space about 680 AU on each side. So there's not really that many GUID.

    by walrus01
  • Title doesn't match submission: it's not really a "coordinate" in 3D space, you "adopt" a pixel from the early imagery taken by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

    Maybe that can be reverse-projected back to something like a coordinate (if you know the distance), but it's not the same thing.

    by pixelesque

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