Even experts get it wrong and it takes a kid to tell 'em or not
Are the kids getting brighter? Is it the school? The diet? Or what?
But they're much smarter now because they can run circles around the "experts". When a German school boy told NASA that their math was wrong about an asteroid hitting the earth on 2029 and offered his own figures.
But they NASA stated that they were never wrong and that they had their figures right. According to the Register,"A small boy did do these calculations, but he made a mistake... NASA's figures are correct."
There's another point here - The gullible media.
All Things Considered, April 3, 2008 · Kenton Stufflebeam, a fifth-grader from Allegan, Mich., pointed out in December that the Smithsonian Natural History Museum's Tower of Time referred to "the Precambrian" as an "era" when it really is a "supereon." This week, the museum corrected the 27-year-old mistake.
But they're much smarter now because they can run circles around the "experts". When a German school boy told NASA that their math was wrong about an asteroid hitting the earth on 2029 and offered his own figures.
BERLIN (AFP) — A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. (Read more)
But they NASA stated that they were never wrong and that they had their figures right. According to the Register,"A small boy did do these calculations, but he made a mistake... NASA's figures are correct."
There's another point here - The gullible media.
It would appear that the intial article in the Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, which says that NASA and the ESA endorsed Nico Marquardt's calculations, was incorrect. The story was picked up by German tabloids and the AFP news wire, and is now all over the internet.
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