Multiple lawsuits have been filed against telescope manufacturers and NASA. These suits were not brought due to safety concerns or injuries, but invasion of privacy. The lawsuits are being filed on the behalf of a single plaintiff and not as a class action. The plaintiff in the cases is The Man in the Moon.
Mr. Moon, as he likes to be referred, had tolerated centuries of incessant privacy invasions by human kind via telescopes but Mr. Moon's breaking point was reached with the launching of the Hubble telescope.
The Hubble telescope was launched in 1990. When asked why it took nearly 20 years to file the suit, Mr. Moon replied, "Money, pure and simple. It took a long time to gather the funds to assemble a legal team."
"I had to wait for eBay to be invented so I could sell my rocks. Getting my rocks off and to their new owners was another headache."
NASA and the telescope manufacturers declined to comment on the pending litigation.
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