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- ElBeh, on 04/18/2008, -5/+141Did anyone /actually/ think he was right in the first place?
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -0/+72I'm never trusting those 13yo kids with my astrophysics calculations ever again.
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -2/+70Oh god all we need is 1 more German kid rejected by art school.
- scairborn, on 04/18/2008, -10/+71U. S. A. !!! U. S. A. !!!
- JITerraza, on 04/18/2008, -1/+43overpaid? you're not talking about a singer or a football player. It's NASA!!! they cut their budget every year and they still manage to make wonders.
- Kotelic, on 04/18/2008, -4/+42Surprising. A team of highly paid, expert engineers out thinks a nine year old. Who would have thought?
- talonstriker, on 04/18/2008, -2/+40Many diggers pointed this out in the initial thread.
- Dantehman17, on 04/18/2008, -1/+34I think that the odds are 1 in 45,000,000.
Where's my 15 minutes? - serend, on 04/18/2008, -7/+39If this was a betting situation you would put money on a 13 year old kid who has been proven wrong over a group of overpaid scientists that may have been doing this for years?
- Scaryclouds, on 04/18/2008, -7/+38I smelled ***** when the little bastard though a 500 billion ton asteroid chances of hitting Earth would increase by 100 fold because it hit a ~100 ton satellite.
Because of ***** like this is why the Germans lost the war.
/sarcasm - FeartheKnighted, on 04/18/2008, -5/+35This was already proven, the german kid was wrong. Now go eat some sauerkraut.
- macbwizard, on 04/18/2008, -1/+30I'll take the Ph. Ds over the seventh grader
- jmkiii, on 04/18/2008, -0/+26I'll take that bet.
If you win, good luck on collecting. - MacEnvy, on 04/18/2008, -0/+25Hmm. I was unaware that a 9 year-old predicted that the O-ring would fail in the right booster upon lift-off of the Challenger. Good to know.
- strictnein, on 04/18/2008, -0/+24Personally I'm more worried about failed Austrian artists.
- Celeron, on 04/18/2008, -0/+23Engineers and scientists can never be overpaid. They're the backbone of the world. Without them, we're nothing.
- santaliqueur, on 04/18/2008, -8/+29Didn't you hear? America is wrong, always.
- Harabeck, on 04/18/2008, -2/+22100 ton satellite? Try 1/2 ton, maybe 3/4.
- MacEnvy, on 04/18/2008, -1/+20I don't think they're overpaid. It's not like we're talking about Wall Street CEOs here, I mean, these people are charged with protecting us from global catastrophe. We're lucky that most of them only make six figures - I think they're worth it.
- strictnein, on 04/18/2008, -1/+17I like to call it "logic".
- frostbytemike, on 04/18/2008, -2/+17The American school system isn't all to blame for the lack of intelligence among students. It's the students being lazy asses and not applying themselves to the curriculum. America spends so much money for students and the students don't even use it to the full potential. All the computer labs are filled with kids going onto myspace and not doing their work...
- santaliqueur, on 04/18/2008, -1/+15It would be like your car traveling at 75 mph on the highway, and a grain of sand hitting the windshield. Not much of an effect there.
- DaviDTC, on 04/18/2008, -1/+13because it might hit a satelitte in 2029. Well it might hit a ufo in 2017 so that would put the odds at 1 in 8.
- Sovereign2142, on 04/18/2008, -0/+12That is incorrect. The German Empire never included Austria, and actually made a point of never including it. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was the empire that Hitler was born into (in the city of Braunau am Inn, which today is in Austria).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary - OfNumbers, on 04/18/2008, -0/+12In the last article, I saw this one coming after reading something along the lines of "This 13 year old did advanced calculations with over 5 different sets of multiple variables (like satellites, solar flares, etc.), by himself, and he did it cause NASA sux."
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -0/+12Actually, He was born in the area known as Austria-Hungary--right on the border but *not* included in the 1871-1918 German Reich. See this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Deutsches_Reich ... --the Land labeled Osterreich, that's Austria-Hungary. Nice try though.
- redstorm986, on 04/18/2008, -0/+12/sarcasm?
- redstorm986, on 04/18/2008, -0/+10Hey guys he's german.
- petebert, on 04/18/2008, -1/+11based on the amount of diggs the original story got, yes.
- AngryAngryBrian, on 04/18/2008, -2/+10Turns out the actual chance is 1 in 45, NASA prepares a crew full of misfits and a touching sound track to destroy threat.
/Completely untrue statement. - MacEnvy, on 04/18/2008, -1/+9Please present your case to the nearest well-connected middle school teacher and CNN and FNC will take you seriously.
- theneb29, on 04/18/2008, -3/+11and even more embarrasing that diggers were short of handing this kid a nobel with all the "takes a kid to teach nasa, good luck getting funded nasa" crap! Lil prick should get a slap on a face for trying to bring the apocalypse about.
- mickstephenson, on 04/18/2008, -2/+10Oh come on, I post this from New Scientist and get 3 diggs and Yahoo makes it to the front page.
- AngeloM3, on 04/18/2008, -2/+10Dont worry.... I hear Bruce Willis is on his way there to blow it up.
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -1/+9Ok my bad. I cant read German or ancient maps.
- allengeer, on 04/18/2008, -1/+8In the contest between NASA and 13-year-old boy... the winner by way of calculation.... NASA!
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -6/+13Technically Hitler was born in the days of the German Empire which included Austria. So calling him German is reasonable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire - Soken, on 04/18/2008, -6/+13reminds me of angry german kid
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -4/+11Yeah how dare a stupid kid try to think outside the box and experiment? Do not question the guys in the white coats, ever!
Even if he's wrong, this is a good exercise. - queeg, on 04/18/2008, -1/+7want a ***** cookie?
- gremlinchief, on 04/18/2008, -2/+8No, that would be chronological snobbery. And this is digg, who cares?
- justinx0r, on 04/18/2008, -0/+6/sarcasm?
- javip, on 04/18/2008, -1/+6/sarcasm?
- chaosium, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5"Yeah how dare a stupid kid try to think outside the box and experiment? Do not question the guys in the white coats, ever!
Even if he's wrong, this is a good exercise."
***** THE MANNNNNNNNNN hurrrrrrrr - nydwarf, on 04/18/2008, -2/+7Great, now the kid is going to grow up all bitter and resentful and will probably start World War 3. Thanks NASA!
- Igei, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5shouldn't the title read, NASA: German Whiz Kid Got It Wrong
- onefatfrog, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5I must have missed the part where somebody said he was stupid, or this was a bad exercise. This kid is probably way better at math than 99% of people commenting on this article, but that doesn't mean NASA has to pretend he is right. They aren't trying to be jerks about it, they are just implementing a simple procedure that we business professionals like to call CYA (figure it out). As a publicly funded business it would be very detrimental for them to be corrected by a middle schooler, so if they are right they SHOULD say so.
- Jubilation43, on 04/18/2008, -2/+7But!!!! I read it in the newspaper!!
- staeiou, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4In the U.S.? Drive a car? Over a two month period, you have a one in 36,000 chance of dying in a car wreck. You actually have a one in 78 chance of dying in a motor vehicle accident over the course of your life. The odds of dying as a pedestrian any given year are around 1 in 40,000, and I don't think anyone swears off walking and driving because they are afraid of those risks.
Besides, it isn't like you personally can do about this. You can decide, for example, to not play Russian Roulette. What are you going to do, colonize the Moon? And the closer this thing comes, we will be able to predict it with more accuracy. -
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