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Comment Re:Quite strange. (Score 1) 89

Ala Apple dictionary lookup thingy:

osculate |äskylt|
verb [ trans. ]
1 Mathematics (of a curve or surface) touch (another curve or surface) so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact : [as adj. ] ( osculating) the plots have been drawn using osculating orbital elements.
2 formal or humorous kiss.

I'm not sure if he meant the former or the later

Comment Re:quote (Score 1) 435

Seriously, surely the odds of being struck are much smaller than one in a million? Isn't it closer to one in a few billion, since there's a population of 6 billion and only 2 occurrences?

well the only other time it happened, in recorded history was 1954, how many people were on the planet then?

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