NASA crashs a probe into a comet, gets sued by astrologer.

Syth

Yahoo News wrote:

MOSCOW -
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."

NASA representatives in Russia could not be reached for comment on the case.

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robindch

This one's been doing the rounds for almost three months, having first (I think) surfaced back in mid-April in an article on Mosnews which, like most of the Russian media, isn't famous for accuracy. By today, they'd forgotten the original article and weren't doing much more than recycling the Reuters feed. <sigh>

BTW, Mosnews has a few other wacky articles worth checking out: Siberian Tornado Sparks Fears of UFO Landing and Orthodox Church Says Western Human Rights Don’t Suit Russia (those army guys are really getting drenched, btw), a new propaganda telly station and a cross-posting of an interview with Pootie-Poot, in which the interviewer asks one question about Chechnya, and four about Vladimir Vladimirovich's pet dog, oddly named Connie (that must be rhyming slang).

toiletduck

this makes me wonder whether i could sue astrologers for getting my horoscope wrong??