With no legal expertise, I cannot comment on the legitimacy of her lawsuit, but I have thoughts on the existence of the lawsuit itself. At the time, I was only ten years old, but had the me-of-today met the Madalyn-of-then, here’s how that conversation would have gone down: Neil: Were you strapped to a Saturn V rocket, with nine million pounds of thrust, and sent a quarter-million miles away into deep space to witness Earthrise from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve? Madalyn: No. Neil: Then shut the fuck up.
