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Your calculation is wrong, there are a thousand millions to the billion. If there was a 1/1,000,000 chance across 10 billion people, it would be 10,000 people a
by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Your calculation is wrong, there are a thousand millions to the billion. If there was a 1/1,000,000 chance across 10 billion people, it would be 10,000 people affected.
- nine_k 3y agoYou are correct, and I am not! Then the "one in a million per lifetime" chance would be an event that happens to about a hundred people every year, on average. Winning a big lottery is within the right ballpark. Flying to space is definitely more rare.