Posthuman Blues

Russian Astrologist Plans to Crash NASA's Independence Day

"'The actions of NASA infringe upon my system of spiritual and life values, in particular on the values of every element of creation, upon the unacceptability of barbarically interfering with the natural life of the universe, and the violation of the natural balance of the Universe,' Bai said in her claim."

It was inevitable. We finally go about seriously researching comets -- immense chunks of celestial shrapnel that could speedily extinguish life on Earth -- and someone whines about her "spiritual values" being desecrated.

I think NASA's next Deep Impact mission should observe the effects of a Russian astrologer's body as it smacks into a cometary nucleus -- for purely scientific reasons, of course.