Getting a star named for you?

debodun

debodun

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Next to cut flowers, this strikes me as a huge waste of money. The cost generally ranges from $29.95 to $189.95, according to the International Star Registry. These packages typically include a certificate, star chart, and sometimes a framed certificate or other extras. While these services are popular for gifts, it's important to understand that they are not officially recognized by astronomical organizations like the International Astronomical Union.

On top of that, you'd probably need the Hubble Telescope to see it. This was being touted about 20 years ago, but I don't hear much about it anymore.
 

debodun said:
Next to cut flowers, this strikes me as a huge waste of money. The cost generally ranges from $29.95 to $189.95, according to the International Star Registry. These packages typically include a certificate, star chart, and sometimes a framed certificate or other extras. While these services are popular for gifts, it's important to understand that they are not officially recognized by astronomical organizations like the International Astronomical Union.

On top of that, you'd probably need the Hubble Telescope to see it. This was being touted about 20 years ago, but I don't hear much about it anymore.
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same.... I've always though this was a big old scam to get money from the Naive
 

Isn't it cultural appropriation? Does no one consider the feelings of the people who call that star home and might have a different name for it?

Imagine how we'd feel if some interstellar mob suddenly arrived and said that the Sun was called Fred Smith and belonged to someone who'd paid $30 for it?

There should be a law against it.
 
debodun said:
Next to cut flowers, this strikes me as a huge waste of money. The cost generally ranges from $29.95 to $189.95, according to the International Star Registry. These packages typically include a certificate, star chart, and sometimes a framed certificate or other extras. While these services are popular for gifts, it's important to understand that they are not officially recognized by astronomical organizations like the International Astronomical Union.

On top of that, you'd probably need the Hubble Telescope to see it. This was being touted about 20 years ago, but I don't hear much about it anymore.
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When Hubby and I were celebrating our 60th wedding anniversary two years ago we decided to celebrate the occasion with family and friends. We hired a function room and invited about 100 people including our church friends.

I told people that all we required was just their presence, and to forget about presents because we had reached the stage in our lives when we needed no more things. We were busy giving away much that we had accumulated over our lives together.

We did receive lots of lovely cards and best wishes. Those things you can keep in a box or in your hearts.

However, we were absolutely stunned when we heard that our church friends had had a whip around and bought us a star. There is a star in the constellation Aquila (Eagle) that is now designated 'Robertson 60th Wedding Anniversary" and I don't need a telescope to see how much thought and love went into that gift.

I never asked the cost of that gesture, but to me it is worth much more than anything money can buy. Love is heaps better than gold.
 
When I was a little kid, Quaker Oats came with a come on, I think it was free. You could send in label from the box and be given the deed to one square inch of land in the Klondike. I had dreams of mining for gold. I can't remember if I actually sent for a deed, but I remember seeing the official deed, but maybe I just remember imagining seeing the deed.

At any rate, the deed and my base ball cards would have eventually been thrown out with the passage of time.
 
I bought one for my son when my daughter-in-law died young, of a very toxic form of cancer. He was utterly rudderless and devastated, and I turned myself inside out trying to help him through it all. He joined a bereavement group at my suggestion and today is one of their counselors.

He hooked up with a former priest, who was very instrumental in getting him through his grief. When I mentioned this star registry to the priest, he told me that while he thought it was a money making outfit, to go for it. So, I did, and my boy is ever grateful that I did. He made a lovely shrine in their yard for her and bought a memorial bench in a Deep Cut park in her name.

So, all in all, while there are many ways people come up with ideas for grieving folks that cost a few bucks, It does help them through the rough patches.

Better that than the thousands funeral directors make on lavish farewells. That, I despise, and my son knows already, it is a no-no for me. Save your dough.
 

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