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Brains on Vacation
Current Episode: August 7, 2005Runaround, SueSometimes brains take vacations, and other times it's more like they go AWOL.
Well, maybe not totally hitchless. Several news accounts at the time told of a Russian woman named Marina Bai who they said is an "astrologist" (one assumes they mean astrologer) who was not happy with Deep Impact. As an astrologer, she felt that the mission was going to tamper with the cosmic balance of Nature, upsetting Forces Beyond Human Ken. So she sued. "My client believes that the NASA project infringes upon her spiritual and life values as well as the natural life of the cosmos and would disrupt the natural balance of forces in the universe" said her lawyer, whose name is (seriously) Molokhov. He goes on to say that the destruction of the comet would cause great stress among humanity (not to mention his client, though, I imagine, not his wallet so much).
Anyway, shocker, NASA didn't stop the mission. When the comet was not destroyed, interestingly, Bai changed her tune somewhat. In another new report, her lawyer said, "This impact could have altered the orbit of the comet, so now there is a chance that the Tempel may well destroy the Earth some day!" I suppose that's true. But given that the comet's velocity was altered by 0.0001 mm/s (about one-thousandth the width of a human hair), it ain't likely. The comet undergoes changes billions of times larger when it gets near Jupiter. Unfortunately, this saga may not be over. The court is still weighing her case, and we may hear more from her soon. If we do, I might sure her. She's infringing on my life values.
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