[Ichneumon]

Images being withheld again by NASA - we want to know if the simulation is right .

ROFL! You just never stop, do you?

Hint: By the time the comet(s) cross the Earth's orbit in that picture, the Earth will have moved on to somewhere else.

Hint#2: Space, unlike your image, is 3D -- there's a *HUGE* amount of room for orbits to pass over/under each other, even if they look as if they "cross" on a flat plot like yours.

Hint#3: Although the Earth looks quite large on that (OUT OF SCALE) image, it would actually be a nearly invisible pinpoint if drawn to scale -- again, it's a lot easier for things to miss each other in the vastness of space than is implied by your drawing.

[Truth666]

Hint ... Space, unlike your image, is 3D -- there's a *HUGE* amount of room for orbits to pass ...
Well this is year 2004 after Christ and the

big numbers trick doesn't work anymore

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Hint : Imagine that SOHO had been in place for the last 120 years - longer than any person alive in this planet. It would be now, just a few minutes before, that Venus would have appeared plunging into the sun for the first time.