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My chance of dying because of a dinosaur-estinction-event-class asteroid hit is one in a 65 million years, thus every two and a half days on average a random pe
by ithkuil 3y ago
My chance of dying because of a dinosaur-estinction-event-class asteroid hit is one in a 65 million years, thus every two and a half days on average a random person on earth dies being hit by an asteroid of that size.
- davefol 3y agoThis implies that your death and all others are not correlated. I’d argue that if an asteroid hits the death correlation is almost 1.
- nonameiguess 3y agoThis is quite a good point. People often fail to make the distinction between something that happens once every million years to all individual organisms separately versus something that happens once ever million years to the planet itself. Our language is usually ambiguous about this.
- supernewton 3y agoSimilarly, Vatican City has slightly less than 6 popes per square mile.