{"id":36,"date":"2005-07-04T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T18:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/archives\/36"},"modified":"2011-01-21T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T20:00:00","slug":"frivolous-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2005\/07\/04\/frivolous-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Frivolous Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>MOSCOW (Reuters) &#8211; A Russian astrologist who says<br \/>\nNASA has altered her horoscope by crashing a spacecraft into a comet is suing the U.S. space agency for <b>damages of $300 million<\/b>, local media reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>NASA deliberately crashed its probe, named Deep Impact, into the Tempel 1 comet to unleash a spray of material formed billions of years ago which scientists hope will shed new light on the composition of the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is obvious that elements of the comet&#8217;s orbit, and correspondingly the ephemeris, will change after the explosion, which <b>interferes with my astrology work<\/b> and distorts my horoscope,&#8221; Izvestia daily quoted astrologist Marina Bai as saying in legal documents submitted before Monday&#8217;s collision.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for a Moscow district court said initial preparations for the case were underway but could not say when the hearing would begin. NASA representatives in Moscow were unavailable for comment.<br \/>\nSource: Russian astrologist sues NASA over comet crash<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bolding my own.<\/p>\n<p>According the NASA scientists on NPR&#8217;s Science Friday, the anticipated change in the Temple 1 comet&#8217;s orbit would 33ft. Wow&#8230; that is about $10 million a ft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (Reuters) &#8211; 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. NASA deliberately crashed its probe, named Deep Impact, into the Tempel 1 comet to unleash a spray of material [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[991,247,227,277,214,215,389,3033,493,283],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-world","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-law","tag-lawsuit","tag-name","tag-nasa","tag-orbit","tag-port","tag-science","tag-scientists","tag-user-interface"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}