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boedicca
07-05-2005, 06:00 PM
A Russian astrologer is suing NASA for the Comet Impact experiment.

She wants $300M for her "moral suffering".

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.

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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."...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050705/D8B5CI681.html

Brian
07-05-2005, 06:11 PM
Saw this earlier and could not comprehend the idiocy involved in such a lawsuit...

This Russian woman should have cought a ride on the Hale-Bop comet with the rest of the clan...

Myrddin
07-05-2005, 07:21 PM
Send her on the next mission to the comet with a bag full of ice so she can repair the damage and make friends with it.

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