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Well, damn. And here I'd thought the premise of _Donnie Darko_ was unrealistic, but here it is, with a meteorite instead of a jet engine, no less. Someone bet
by undoware 5y ago
Well, damn.
And here I'd thought the premise of _Donnie Darko_ was unrealistic, but here it is, with a meteorite instead of a jet engine, no less.
Someone better at stats than I am: What is the probability of getting hit in the face by a meteorite while you sleep?
Aspiring screenwriter's gotta know
- stargazer-3 5y agoAround 5e-14 per year, assuming random impact location, small (i.e. not town-sized) projectiles, and head impact cross-section the size an A4 paper. You can sleep safely. Waiting for 10^14 years will take a while - by that time, no new stars are born in Milkomeda, and the Sun's white dwarf remnant has cooled down to a point of no longer being visible by naked eye. (edit: of course, it's not reasonable to assume that the 500 impacts / year will be constant till the end of time) Hitting a random human on Earth, though, is a munch higher likelihood - around 0.04% per year if I did my numbers right.
- undoware 5y agothank you <3