Apparently she’s not and she doesn’t want me to call her Shirley ever again.
MOSCOW (AP) – 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.
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 8.7 billion rubles ($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 immediately be reached for comment.
Because they were all found to be laughing hysterically on the floors of their offices.
I heard this on the top of the hour local radio news the other night and couldn’t believe it until I found it later.
After the Soviet Union fell, Russians got something new called “The Rule of Law�. It didn’t take long for one of them to get the idea to abuse it internationally.