05 lipca 2005

 

There Is a Message Coming Over the Osculator...

I did not get to see the collision that Deep Imapct had with comet Tempel 1. I did get to see the pictures on NASA's mission site (they call it a smashing success, get it?), though. The view was supposed to be spectacular from Mauna Kea observatory, however. Yeah, as if being in Hawaii is not enough.

Yes, I realize an awful lot of money was spent on this. Think of it this way, if we didn't do this, the president would have blown it on abstenence education.


Here's another thing that reinforces my lack of respect for astrology: a woman named Marina Bai is suing NASA over the Deep Impact mission. She claims "moral suffering" and that her horoscope will "deform." These damages, by her estimation, are worth $300 million (thats 3 x 108 dollars for real scientists). She origninally wanted to stop the project entirely, but a lower court judge threw the case out. Apparently, she appealed, however.



One more thing I didn't need to make up: there is another Polish-Mexican knocking around. The candidate of the PRD for Governor of the state of Mexico was a woman named Yeidckol Polevnsky. She came in third. She had had her name changed from Citali Ibañez Avila Camacho because of, apparently, a custody dispute over her children. The name Camacho links her to a former Mexican president as well as a Revolutionary leader, but apparently, she is also of Polish heritage.

Some observers think that the name change may have hurt her, especially to something that sounds so bizarre to a latin ear. Well, maybe the fact that she has had nearly half a dozen names over her life, or maybe her claim of extra-terrestrial support might have lost a few votes.

¡Viva el Orgullo Polaco-Mexicano!


Hasta la proxima señora Ibañez. Do zobaczenia pana Polevnsky. Klaatu Barada Nicto.

Comments:
re: Polevnsky -

Hey, who's that guy in the mask? Is that her running mate?
 
Wow...that would have been awesome, eh? Santo for Lieutenent Governor! I'll talk to Janet about that.
 
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