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Well, the important thing is the number of person-hours not the number of people since meteorite death has to be pretty random. If 5 people took turns existing
by renewiltord 2y ago
Well, the important thing is the number of person-hours not the number of people since meteorite death has to be pretty random.
If 5 people took turns existing in sequence that's not more likely for a human observation than one human over that time. It only matters how many hours where humans were available to die and that's roughly matched between prehistory and the last 100 years.
- Retric 2y agoIf you want to get a really good estimate it’s worth considering the odds that either 0 or thousands of people dying in the same event when people are living in dense cities etc. Tunguska over London would have had a serious death toll where an airburst in a remote area didn’t. But you’re going to see deaths in an area with a population density of 1 per square km or 100,000/km2.