Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Chasing Deep Pockets
Check out her reasoning
"It is obvious that elements of the comet's orbit, and correspondingly the ephemeris, will change after the explosion, which interferes with my astrology work and distorts my horoscope," Izvestia daily quoted astrologist Marina Bai as saying in legal documents submitted before Monday's collision.Now it is true that the impact actually did alter the the comet's orbit, but an amount that is undetectable by the best instruments available. When you walk from the front to the back of an airplane, it changes the planes course slightly, do you think the pilot notices? If this woman's calculations are affected by this impact, she has some of the most powerful computers in the world at her disposal because we are talking effects out about 15 decimal places or so.
I'd say the only thing she is calculating is how to spend the money.
