Leave it to a 13 year-old kid to not know that a bug hitting a car windshield has zero effect on the car's trajectory. Same thing with a 1000m asteroid hitting a satellite.
Even if such a trajectory change *could* happen, how could a kid project that the change would make the asteroid *more* likely to hit the earth and not *less* likely. Is it surprising that Germany lost the race to develop the atomic bomb? -----Original Message----- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:13 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Killer asteroid, 1 in 450 chance of hitting earth > Crap, guess I better get my affairs in order. The world is coming to > an end. :-) Or not... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/16/esa_german_schoolboy_apophis_denial/ -- Jay ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:258606 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
