German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper


	German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper

Silkweaver

4-15-2008 7:21 PM

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astroid impact, nasa, astronomy

Silkweaver says:

I hope this is NASA's only mistake in calculating asteroid impact probabilities. ...and respect to the the bright child.

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4-16-2008 3:25 AM

syncopath

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

4-16-2008 5:38 AM

syncopath

we always knew that if anyone at all, it will be The Child to indicate that the Kind is Naked ....

4-16-2008 7:34 AM

skwirlinator

Perhaps a nice mass destruction would do this world some good. I say, bring it on.

4-16-2008 5:39 PM

bstouse

Fake. News today says that NASA has never heard of this kid and never spoken to him.

4-16-2008 8:09 PM

Silkweaver

Fake or not, I am out of here well before 2036....

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