Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
NASA's Deep Impact probe is scheduled to smack into Comet Tempel 1 on the 4th of July, allowing astronomers to analyze the inside of a comet for the first time. Unless...
In a lawsuit she filed last month with the Presnensky district court in Moscow, [Russian astrologist Marina] Bai is demanding that NASA call off its $311 million operation, with the spacecraft already in its cruise phase. She also wants 8.7 billion rubles (the ruble equivalent of the entire cost of the mission) in compensation for moral damages.
"The actions of NASA infringe upon my system of spiritual and life values, in particular on the values of every element of creation, upon the unacceptability of barbarically interfering with the natural life of the universe, and the violation of the natural balance of the Universe," Bai said in her claim.
Her suit was denied by the first court that heard it but, of course, Mercury was in retrograde then, so her attorney is expecting better results from the Moscow City Court next month.
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Just so you know that resistance is useless... lol
Yeah, I'd like to see the next round of talks between Putin and Bush if the court rules in your favor:
Putin: Mr. Bush, there's one final small issue we need to work out.
Bush: Yes?
Putin: Well, you see, um, NASA owes this lady, umm, $311 million and needs to, umm, call off its Deep Impact mission. Our courts have, umm, said so.
Bush: Fancy a round of golf at my ranch?
Putin: We play for a vodka shot for each hole.
Posted by: John Johnson at April 20, 2005 03:42 PM'tis but a fragile flower petal blowing in the mighty wind of an expanding sky. Torture it thus for it may not blow by again!
Posted by: shakespeare jones at April 20, 2005 07:25 PM
Fool! Get thee hence; the moon, like a testicle, hangs low in the sky.