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To: LibWhacker
Wow this is a scary theory.

Earth may be a small target, but it has been traveling in a repetitive pattern for billions of years; in the field of trajectory of billions of astronomical projectiles...what are the odds of a hit?

15 posted on 07/08/2004 12:56:36 AM PDT by Positive (There's nothing sadder than seeing a group of great ideas being murdered by a bunch of brutal facts!)
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To: Positive

A big hit like that one? I've heard something like once every 100 million years or so.


17 posted on 07/08/2004 1:01:29 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Positive
Earth may be a small target, but it has been traveling in a repetitive pattern for billions of years; in the field of trajectory of billions of astronomical projectiles...what are the odds of a hit?

Obviously, 1.0 to 1.0.

;^)

57 posted on 07/08/2004 8:32:13 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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