Russian Court Postpones Hearing in Astrologer's Deep Impact Lawsuit

http://www.space.com/news/ap_050705_deepimpact_astrologer.html

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.

There is also an amusing piece on The Planetary Society's Weblog where the author's mother-in-law was upset upon learning that NASA smashed a probe into a comet. Like she even had a clue or cared that any of the billions of comets existed before, let along Tempel 1.

http://planetary.org/blog/20050704.htm

It's like the "scare" word nuclear - say it to people who have no idea of nuclear physics, or physics in general, and all they can think of is the dangers. Not whether nuclear power might just be the thing that save our technological civilization's behind.

Why do comets bring out the whacko side of humanity? Take Heaven's Gate and Hale-Bopp in 1997 as just one sad example.

http://www.rickross.com/reference/heavensgate/gate4.html