Monday, July 4, 2005

It actually makes sense, if you believe in astrology

I was wondering what the side effects of breaking open comet Tempel 1 would be--scientific, physical, political--but I somehow didn't see this coming:

A Russian astrologist who says NASA has altered her horoscope by crashing a spacecraft into a comet is suing the U.S. space agency for damages of $300 million, local media reported on Monday.
I'm not sure that it would take $300 million worth of work to redo all her calculations, though. Or is this money she would have received for her horoscopes but now will not because she has to take the time to redo them?

If so, maybe I should get into astrology...;P

4 comments:

David said...

Did you ever read Mostly Harmless, the fifth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy?

There was some part of the plot that concerned Astrology and how the discovery of a 10th planet screwed that up.

Heather Meadows said...

Heheheheh.

No, I haven't read any of HGttG. I'm a heathen, I know.

Anonymous said...

There are plenty of other astrological influences out there to keep us astrologers busy even if a 10th planet is discovered or if more comets explode!

Anonymous said...

Now, I realize there are those that aren't your usual "WHAT DOES THE PAPER SAY MY DAY WILL BE LIKE TODAY" type of astrologers out there - those that figure they follow the "Old School" astrology, or what have you, that may even follow it as religiously as a Catholic sins, but I also know there are a hell of a lot more morons following the daily lists than else.

But no matter what "niche" of the LET ME READ THE STARS club they aspire to, this news makes me want, more than anything else, to buy my own fucking rocket-bomb and obliterate something else up there to fuck with 'em. ;D

Just think of it like this - if the all-powerful heavens can really give people a glimpse of their future, then surely it should have been able to predict my war-shaft coming do decimate one of its beacons.