Mother’s Day

You can tell today is Mothers Day when the local Walmart is positively swamped at 11:oopm the night before as teenagers and husbands desperately try to pick out a card from the cheap rack along with a stuffed animal or other similar gift because they’d put doing so off until the last moment.

Happy Mommy’s Day, Mom.

Russian Astrologer Sues NASA

New Scientist magazine has a piece up about Marina Bai, a Russian astrologer who claims that the upcoming “Deep Impact” mission, designed to land a 370-kilogram copper probe on Comet Tempel 1.

According to the article, NASA’s July 4th mission will “violate ‘the natural balance of the universe’ and damage her ‘system of spiritual values'”, for which the astrologer is suing the space agency’s Moscow branch in Russia for $311 million dollars for “moral damages”.