GP was probably referring to 99942 Apophis, which is expected to pass within geosynchronous orbit on April 13, 2029.

Er, what? According to wikipedia, variants of Christianity are about the largest religion in the world, with about 2 billion adherents. Islam is a distant second with about a billion, and Hinduism third with about 800 million.

I'm a programming languages grad student at the University of Washington, which is a 15 minute drive from MS. I'm not on the inside, but I see a *lot* of MSR talks. Nearly all the PL talks which I see describe testing and analysis tools MSR developed and nearly all of them end with something along the lines of "now it is mandatory that all checked in code be tested by our system." It seems MSR produces a *huge* number of in house tools for MS.