NASA: Fill in a name, and you can have an exclusive coordinate in the universe

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.

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.

I'm happily surprised they didn't ask for money.

If I adopt a coordinate, does that make me a Space Lord or Space Baron?

Good try, federal agency, good try.

I wish to be named Emperor of One Thousand Galaxies.

OK, I adopted Pixel 00150921. It has some nice divisors including 9. Hit me up.

What a great way to harvest an email list lol

But which one is mine? :S

Is this an NFT without the block chain? Sounds like it from a quick skim.