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Originally Posted by Pineedles
Thanks for the link SteveA! One note though, I couldn't help from thinking about it when I heard the odds on the news report about someone being hit by the debris vs. winning Powerball which is not a fair comparison. It should be odds of someone winning powerball for a given week, which is about 1 in 5.  |
Right you are, so far every announcer we have heard has got it wrong, even the NASA spokesperson.
The one in 3500 is the chance that someone somewhere on earth will be hit. With the earth population about 6.9 billion, 6.900,000,000 +/-, that puts the odds that I personally will be hit at about one in 24.15 trillion or one in 24,150,000,000,000.