A Russian astrologer has sued NASA claiming that the Deep Impact probe that crashed into comet Tempel 1 on July 4 “ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe.” She’s seeking damages as the result of her “moral sufferings.”

If you can stand a bit of moral sufffering of your own, take a look at this movie and consider: This impact occurred 133 million miles from Earth, involved the collision of a dishwasher-sized probe with a 3.7-mile-wide comet hurtling through space at 23,000 miles per hour — and you can watch it all on your personal computer, a piece of technology that makes all the computers involved in the Apollo 11 mission seem like hand calculators by comparison.

Yeah, Live 8 was a notable moment for the idea of a connected global community … but this literally puts the power of the Internet into cosmic perspective.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 6th, 2005 at 12:01 am and is filed under Internet Stuff, This 'n' That.