Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe

0110011001110101 writes "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. '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." ' "

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Re:NASA's next probe

[GeneralHorel]

Go back to your porn sites and stop posting on /.

No he asked if they could clone alterboys, too

[xtermin8]

You know those good ol' boys in Rome are into all sorts of perversion.

Re:The Russian court has got see reason, here.

[tomhudson]

I'll appoligize (as a christian) on behalf of whoever ripped off your fish, as that was a very "un-christian" act.

So how about my Linux cross, my Linux altar (where we sacrifice Windows users^W^Wvirgins), and my Linux Bible?

And my commemorative St-Linus-was-here beer can collection?

And my BSD devil?

Wrong: Religion is Far more Virulant than Athiesm

[FreeUser]

Christians wave gay hate signs, and athiests try to get every reference to the 10 commandments removed.

Yeah, because asking to have Christian dogma removed from (ostensibly) secular government institutions (such as ostensibly fair and balanced courts of law) is oh so similar to waving hate signs and encouraging violence against an oppressed minority.

Right.

One side is commiting significantly worse offenses than the other, and that would be the Taliban American Style religious right, whether it is trying to return women to the status of State and Church chattel for nine months if they should have the misfortune of becoming empregnated (be it via gang-rape, or simply because the local fundamentalist pharamacist refuses to sell a woman birth control--don't laugh, it is happening in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as I type this), encouraging hate crimes against gays (and encoding discrimination against those people into law), taking over our schools and turning them from secular places of education to weekday sunday school slash religious propoganda centers, or dissolving the separation of church and state entirely.

I don't approve of any misguided athiest doing any sort of vandalism, but compared to the full on assault by the American Taliban against the founding pillars of American Secular Democracy, what they have done pales by comparison so much as to be negligable.

Re:Her parents should be proud...

[scbysnx]

agreed but the issue is that most people on /. will bash the united states whatever chance they get, aswell as its people (which I personally take offense to every time) but yeah that was hilarious I just wish the spirit behind the joke weren't true... but it is

Re:The Russian court has got see reason, here.

[Lulu of the Lotus-Ea]

I think the only reasonably successful "new" religion that has arisen in recent times is the Latter Day Saints, and even that was over 150 years ago and it's only a variation of Christianity.

Bahai is about the same age as Mormonism, and is also quite successful (relatively speaking: neither has edged out Catholicism, Hinduism or Islam; but both have millions of members). Bahai seems a little bit less cultish than Mormonism (and certainly much less so than Scientology or the also new Unification Church); but then, I have no real taste for any religion, so this may be splitting hairs.