Tuesday, July 05, 2005

There's A Fool Born Every Minute

Try to help me understand this story about a Russian Astrologer suing NASA.

“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." "

At first I thought that the headline had a typo and that a Russian ASTRONOMER was suing NASA.

Nooooooooo sir, it’s an Astrologer—talk about a high degree of credibility.

The lawsuit raises a couple of important issues in my mind, stupid little things like "who owns Comets in the first place?"

Can I buy one (a comet) on E-Bay?

Next, who the hell here besides the Russians believes that they have the right to sue NASA in a Russian court. If the Russians want to look into issues involving NASA, why don't they look into the billions of dollars of our tax money that that have been embezzled and miss-spent by Russian Officials , dollars intended to be used in constructing modules for the International Space Station.

The only person more intellectually challenged than the “Astrologer” in this story is Alexander “Cocktail” Molokhov, the lawyer that is stupid enough to file this case in the first place.

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