on 05 Jul 2005 in alt.atheism, dear sweet (bg12345@apexmail.com) made
the light shine upon us with this:

Craig Franck wrote:

"Jason Spaceman" wrote

From the article:
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MOSCOW - 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.

<snip>

.. . .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."

Oh, like astrologers haven't done $300 million in damage with their
silly advice.

--
Craig Franck

Too honest, too good, and too true not to nominate.
Seconds, anyone?

Yup, seconds.

On 6 Jul 2005 04:25:35 -0700, TomS <TomS_member@newsguy.com> wrote:

"On 5 Jul 2005 17:52:10 -0700, in article
<1120611130.747972.324770@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Kari Tikkanen
stated..."

And how many much more massive comets she knew beforehand (Hale-Bopp,
Hyakutake) until amateurs and astronomers even found those ?
Should she sue either amateurs who found those too late or Devil who
threw those from darkness to disturb her horoscopes ?
Did she ever curse Schoemaker-Levy ice ball that gave quite a exlosive
impetus to Jupiter ? Are huge explosions mark of balance of forces ?
What about Voyagers etc that sucked momentum of Jupiter, slowed
Jupiter?

I hestitate to mention this, but what about those astronomers
who want to downgrade Pluto from the status of "planet"?

Ignore them.
They're all Aquarians.

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On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:24:50 -0400, Jason Spaceman
<notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote:

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J. Spaceman

Am I the only one who has started to wonder if a non-Communist Russia
hasn't been all it was cracked up to be?

I have read (though perhaps the reports are not accurate), that when the
U.S. Defense Department was spending large sums of money researching
military uses for psychic powers, the Soviet Ministry of Defense was
spending much more on the same idea. I'm not convinced that
irrationalism just suddenly broke out after years of Marxist-Leninist
repression; I suspect it was thriving all along (think Lysenko).

I'd always hoped that Russia pumped out the grainy footage of gifted
"psychics" purely to give the U.S the willies, make it think it behind in
the 'psychic arms race" and make it overspend defense money uselessly.

Steven J. wrote:

"George Cleveland" <georgecleveland@nospam.msn.com> wrote in message
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On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:24:50 -0400, Jason Spaceman
<notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote:

From the article:
-----------------------------------------------------
MOSCOW - 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.

Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact
probe that punched a crater into the comet Tempel 1 late Sunday "ruins
the natural balance of forces in the universe," the newspaper Izvestia
reported Tuesday. A Moscow court has postponed hearings on the case
until late July, the paper said. . . .

.. . .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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Read it at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050705/ap_on_fe_st/russia_comet_case







J. Spaceman

Am I the only one who has started to wonder if a non-Communist Russia
hasn't been all it was cracked up to be?

I have read (though perhaps the reports are not accurate), that when the
U.S. Defense Department was spending large sums of money researching
military uses for psychic powers, the Soviet Ministry of Defense was
spending much more on the same idea. I'm not convinced that
irrationalism
just suddenly broke out after years of Marxist-Leninist repression; I
suspect it was thriving all along (think Lysenko).

g.c.

-- Steven J.

In the 1970s, the Soviets examined the area of "paranormal" based on
the idea that the brain, the nervous system, and even the simplest
forms of organic matter, had a capacity for influence and communication
beyond what was conventionally accepted. Whatever they were, they were
not "kooks."

Hubbard exploited ideas related to the "paranormal," ie. strange
stuff about life we don't yet understand, and phoney "psychics" have
also been hard at work expoiting the same general area.

Scientology really doesn't mind that much when people, critical of
it, and its chronically lying founder, are hard-core "skeptics" and
"the human soul is a delusion" materialists. It feel pretty adept at
"handling" that point-of-view with its PR.

Steven J. wrote:

"George Cleveland" <georgecleveland@nospam.msn.com> wrote in message
news:22jmc1ptu76a1pkk98le9o5jj902psf57o@4ax.com...

On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:24:50 -0400, Jason Spaceman
<notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote:

From the article:
-----------------------------------------------------
MOSCOW - 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.

Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact
probe that punched a crater into the comet Tempel 1 late Sunday "ruins
the natural balance of forces in the universe," the newspaper Izvestia
reported Tuesday. A Moscow court has postponed hearings on the case
until late July, the paper said. . . .

.. . .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."
---------------------------------------------------------

Read it at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050705/ap_on_fe_st/russia_comet_case







J. Spaceman

Am I the only one who has started to wonder if a non-Communist Russia
hasn't been all it was cracked up to be?

I have read (though perhaps the reports are not accurate), that when the
U.S. Defense Department was spending large sums of money researching
military uses for psychic powers, the Soviet Ministry of Defense was
spending much more on the same idea. I'm not convinced that irrationalism
just suddenly broke out after years of Marxist-Leninist repression; I
suspect it was thriving all along (think Lysenko).

g.c.

-- Steven J.

In the 1970s, the Soviets examined the area of "paranormal" based on
the idea that the brain, the nervous system, and even the simplest
forms of organic matter, had a capacity for influence and communication
beyond what was conventionally accepted. Whatever they were, they were
not "kooks."

Hubbard exploited ideas related to the "paranormal," ie. strange
stuff about life we don't yet understand, and phoney "psychics" have
also been hard at work expoiting the same general area.

Scientology really doesn't mind that much when people, critical of
it, and its chronically lying founder, are hard-core "skeptics" and
"the human soul is a delusion" materialists. It feel pretty adept at
"handling" that point-of-view with its PR.