[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

I wonder if anyone has actually plotted this thing out and the number of variables and permutations? The story seems pretty sure of itself when it says that IF the asteroid POSSIBLY hits ONE of the 40,000 satellites that ARE MOVING at 3km/s, but probably DONT intersect the path of the Asteroid, THEN IT WILL DEFINITELY RETURN TO EARTH 7 YEARS LATER and CRASH into the ATLANTIC OCEAN????????

Who are they trying to bull**** here?

So a 13 yr old German kid has done ALL the maths of EVERY option of the Asteroid of that size hitting EVERY option of satellite in the 40,000 that supposedly are out there and then calculated EVERY impact trajectory of the asteroid and EVERY one of the 40,000 satellites using ALL their details of mass, size and speed (which he looked up in his Encyclopaedia of Everythingica) and then worked out that without a doubt that the asteroid would THEN return to Earth 7 years later and splash down in the Atlantic Ocean AFTER the impact had taken place, the asteroid went back out (now in an UNSTABLE orbit) past the massive BIG satellite we call the MOON, past the GAS GIANTS with all of their MASSIVE gravitational pull and then back again towards Earth and then toddle back through the atmosphere WITHOUT burning up to cause untold damage to life as we know it? (in the 1 in 450 scenario).

OH THE HUMANITY!!!!

Sounds like a 1 in 1 chance of being a story beaten up by some dip**** reporter who probably bought a lemon of an American car and now owns a BMW, listens to Kraftwerk and wears a Tag Heuer watch and now loves everything Germanic and wants to flip the finger at NASA again by using the old : "German rocket scientists build Moon Rockets for the USA" line.

My opinion is that its all a crock of S%#t!!!

There, next time I will tell you how I REALLY feel.

Chris