Article out of a local newspaper

Read this in the paper today. I found the last paragraph particularly amusing: -

This was the moment that a mission straight out of a science fiction movie came to a spectacular and successful conclusion. The blast was caught on camera just before 6am yesterday, when a washing machine sized probe slammed into a comet the size of manhattan, 134 million Km above Earth.The Deep Impact project was an audacious plan to uncover the building blocks of life. But there wasn't a Bruce Willis in sight as scientists and engineers in the £200 million mission's control room cheered and hugged on confirmation of the crash. The 372Kg copper and alluminium 'torpedo' was released from the Deep Impact spacecraft on Sunday and waited to be 'run over' by comet Tempel 1, snapping images of the rocky terrain up to 3.7 seconds before impact. It revealed craters largely unchanged since the solar system was formed 4.6 billion years ago. The impact happened at 37,100kph (23,000mph) - at that speed it would take 6 minutes to fly from New York to Los Angeles. ' We hit exactly where we wanted to', said Don Yeomans, a scientist at Nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in Pasdena. 'We've got all the data we could ask for - we're ecstatic.'
But russian astrologist Marina Bai was not so happy. She is suing Nasa for £150 million. 'Elements of the comet's orbit will change after the explosoin, which interferes with my work and distorts my horoscope,' she said.

Originally posted by jimslyp69
Read this in the paper today. I found the last paragraph particularly amusing: -

This was the moment that a mission straight out of a science fiction movie came to a spectacular and successful conclusion. The blast was caught on camera just before 6am yesterday, when a washing machine sized probe slammed into a comet the size of manhattan, 134 million K ...[text shortened]... change after the explosoin, which interferes with my work and distorts my horoscope,' she said.