Nitwit Sues NASA
Please commend me on my restraint for avoiding Uranus while titling -- not because I'm above being vulgar, but because it's far too common. And now, on to our tale of astrological woe. While I neither have an astrological sign nor believe in astrology, an idiot who makes her living in the field thinks she's predicted a way to cash in:
NASA's mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust — it also brought a lawsuit from a Russian astrologer.Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact probe that punched a crater into the comet Tempel 1 late Sunday "ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe," the newspaper Izvestia reported Tuesday. A Moscow court has postponed hearings on the case until late July, the paper said.
Scientists say the crash did not significantly alter the comet's orbit around the sun and said the experiment does not pose any danger to Earth.
The probe's comet crash sent up a cloud of debris that scientists hope to examine to learn how the solar system was formed.
Bai is seeking damages totaling $300 million — the approximate equivalent of the mission's cost — for her "moral sufferings," Izvestia said, citing her lawyer Alexander Molokhov. She earlier told the paper that the experiment would "deform her horoscope."
What worried me was that the comet would be thrown off course just enough to smash into an inhabited planet - and the arrogance of conducting the experiment simply because it would not effect the comet's relationship with *our* planet. It was unnecessary and expensive.
The lawsuit is still really stupid though.
Goddyss at July 6, 2005 1:10 PM
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