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Originally Posted by ADL Eddie
"There's only one problem with the story: the kid's sums are in fact wrong, NASA's are right, and the ESA swear blind they never said any different. An ESA spokesman in Germany told the Reg this morning: "A small boy did do these calculations, but he made a mistake... NASA's figures are correct." "
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04...pophis_denial/ |
Quoted because people don't read a whole thread.
So this kid's claims were picked up by German tabloids and spread across the Internet and the ESA quotes in the original "story" are fake.