Between 16 and 22 July 1994, fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 pounded Jupiter like a bass drum.  The impacts, which released a force equal to 6 teratons of TNT, provided important insights into the inner structure of Jupiter.  These are the natural experiments that astronomers live for.  Unfortunately, chance does not provide the sample sizes required for science.  So, starting in 1959, we have seen fit to smash objects, at varying degrees of intensity, into nearby (relatively) stellar objects in order to learn about their composition.  But, insensitive assholes that we are, we never thought that these objects might object.

Enter Satya Harvey (astrologer, priestess, shaman, and visionary) to remind us to be sensitive to inanimate objects.  She worried that the moon, less than a day from being smacked around by the Japanese space probe Kaguya, was being denied its right of informed consent to astronomical research:

Did these scientists talk to the moon? Tell her what they were doing? Ask her permission?  Show her respect?

The Festival is all for consent, but how does an inanimate object consent?  Harvey doesn't even seem to believe that the moon has the necessary capabilities to communicate:

In many traditions, including astrology, the moon represents the feminine. It is the yin, the intuitive, the emotions. Women are connected to the moon by their menstrual cycles while they are fertile, and all beings, including the earth herself, are affected by the pull of the tides. . .When we are connected into the web of life, we know that what we do to one part is what we do to all. Gaining knowledge by destruction is an empty victory.

Perhaps it would help to put that web of life into perspective.  Kaguya's collision with the moon changed the moon's velocity by less than 1 part in 100 nonillion (10³²).  In comparison, a mosquito hitting a bicycling rugbyologist in his only left eye will change his velocity by 1 part in 100 million (10⁸).  That isn't much, but it is a septillion (10²⁴) times more effect on the rugbyologist than the moon.  And the mosquito never, ever asks for permission.

So, we must ask, where was Harvey during the Deep Impact mission.  According to reports, NASA threw an 800 lb gorilla (or a 370kg copper impactor, I can never remember which) at a comet (Tempel 1) over 400 million km away and hit it. 

Tempel 1: Shoulda have remembered the rocks.

That collision was equivalent to 5 tons of TNT.  Kaguya, which grazed the moon more than struck it, may have generated an impact equivalent to less than 2 tons of TNT.  The moon, however, is a quadrillion (10¹⁵) times larger than comet Tempel 1.  Tempel 1's velocity could have been reduced by 1 part in a 100 billion (10¹¹).  Sure, Deep Impact was a gentle touch, until compared to Kaguya (one sextillionth of the effect).  When one takes into account the size of the object taking the hit, its like the difference between taking a punch from Mike Tyson or Michael Jackson.

Where was Harvey during the Deep Impact mission?  Did she advocate for Tempel 1?  A Google search for "Satya Harvey" and "Deep Impact" turns up nothing.  Maybe comets not important?  Maybe Harvey thinks Tempel 1 deserved it?  Why doesn't Harvey like comets?

The depiction of comets in popular culture is firmly rooted in the long Western tradition of seeing comets as harbingers of doom and as omens of world-altering change.
-Wikipedia

That's right.  Satya Harvey hates comets.  Due to her rampant anti-cometism and moon supremacist views, The Festival of Idiots is pleased to welcome Satya Harvey.