13-year old boy corrects NASA's asteroid calculations. Earth is in great danger

[franXs]

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As expected. NASA has higher scale instruments than what the boy had.

I totally agree with you...

[ethzneuron]

sa makauna lang.. asteroid collition or ice poles melting, luoy sa pinas!

[cosplay]

sa makauna lang.. asteroid collition or ice poles melting, luoy sa pinas!

Yup.

[cellularis]

nakabasa ko sa yahoo sayop daw ang bata...

[aya_diwata]

NASA refutes 13-year old boy's computation about an asteroid hitting earth.

[color=blue][i]It read like a space-age tale of David and Goliath. An enterprising 13-year-old German boy recalculates the likelihood of an asteroid hitting Earth, alerts NASA, and the big American space agency acknowledges he's right. Only problem? It's not true.

Officials from both NASA and the European Space Agency have refuted the account, which sped across the Web at the speed of light. The young man's asteroid-strike numbers were not correct and the U.S. space agency has not, repeat has not, changed its mind about the 1-in-45,000 chance that the hurtling hunk of rock will collide with our planet. (The student thought it was a 1-in-450 chance. Yikes!)

the boy is really intelligent but I'm relieved that the claim was refuted. 1:450 chance is greater than getting hit by a lightning.

whew.

[br]Posted on: April 20, 2008, 03:58:14 AM_________________________________________________

sa makauna lang.. asteroid collition or ice poles melting, luoy sa pinas!

indeed. we have global warming to deal with too and this one is a proven fact.

[dexterdal]

yehey, hapit na ma-extinct ang humans...cool kau ni dah...

yehey....... una ka

[cebu-future]

Wow the boy is an E.T. hehehe

[husdamanus]

funny story

[JODECS]

wala nay updates ani?

[rts1980]

wen man daw ta maigo anang asteroid? and wer man specifically mu impact dri sa earth?