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1/3200 chance someone will be hit by a satellite next week
- teedog 15y agoSuch a misleading title. I think this means the chances of any individual person getting hit is 1 in 21,680,754,240,000?
- dotBen 15y agoNo, to quote from the article: "The odds of it hitting someone anywhere on the planet are 1 in 3,200. " Perhaps you are confusing "chances of any person getting hit" with "chances of you getting hit", which is not what the title says.
- william42 15y agoDead Like Me?
- maeon3 15y agoWell, if it does hit you, it will probably be going faster than the speed of sound so you won't have time to realize what happened. Will there be a gps coordinate updated somewhere to find out of this chunk of metal is going to take down a skyscraper? How fast is it going to be moving?
- nopassrecover 15y agoPretty sure you'd realise what's happening. After all, we notice lightning flashes.
- mynameishere 15y agoWhat percentage of the earth is occupied by a human? 51,006,560,000,000 square meters landmass on earth. about 6 billion humans. So they take up about 6,000,000,000 square meters. or .00118 percent of the earth. So roughly a 1 in 100000 chance of a single piece hitting a person. I'm too drunk to know if this is nonsense.
- jcitme 15y agoI suppose a satellite travelling at a very shallow angle would increase chances. Also, stuff like being able to eliminate locations such as antartica and the pacific, etc, reduces the amount of space that can be hit...
- mynameishere 15y agoReply to jcitme: All of your comments are [dead] and you are probably unaware of it. There is a weird heuristic here that does that occasionally to non-trolls.
- growt 15y agoWell humans are not evenly distributed on earth and the area where the satellite will hit is within some known boundaries.