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14-Year-Old Boy Smote By Meteorite
eldavojohn writes "Winning the lottery requires incredible luck and one in a million odds. So does getting hit by a falling space rock. A 14-year-old German boy was granted a three-inch scar by the gods. A pea-sized meteorite smote young Gerrit Blank's hand before leaving a foot-sized crater on the road. The boy's account: 'At first I just saw a large ball of light, and then I suddenly felt a pain in my hand. Then a split second after that there was an enormous bang like a crash of thunder. The noise that came after the flash of light was so loud that my ears were ringing for hours afterwards. When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road.' Curiously, the rock was magnetic, and tests were done to verify it is extraterrestrial. The Telegraph notes the only other recorded event of a meteorite striking a person was 'in November 1954 when a grapefruit-sized fragment crashed through the roof of a house, bounced off furniture and landed on a sleeping woman.' Space.com lists a few more anomalies and we discussed the probability of these things downing aircraft recently."
'He' kinda looks like a she...if you know what i mean...and 'shes' hawt
I can't believe he let you get by with that or that you've been modded insightful. Clearly he meant that the chance of (intelligent?) life occurring twice in our universe is very small, like the chances of any one person winning the lottery.
Since you read and comment on /., I'm sure you're familiar with the Drake equation. The Drake equation is exact, but we have no idea how large a few of the factors are, so the true probability is anyone's guess, really. Your co-worker is guilty of guessing, but you and the people who have modded you up are guilty of being morons.
The only pictures I see seem to be of his sister.
Geez. Get hair cut you sissy!