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To: LibWhacker
Trust me, I'm no Art Bell...but asteroids come in many shapes and sizes and material content, do they not.

If they do...it must be one heck of a mathematical computation to figure out the probablity...then of course there's the differences of consequences of a direct hit, a negative rotation hit or a positive rotation hit...is it in the Northern Hemisphere during which season or the Southern?

I bought a Lotto ticket today...odds 41,600,000 to one...hundreds of people have "beat the odds."

19 posted on 07/08/2004 1:10:26 AM PDT by Positive (There's nothing sadder than seeing a group of great ideas being murdered by a bunch of brutal facts!)
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To: Positive

There are two ways to figure a probability: Calculate it or estimate it. I think the "once every 100 million years" assessment falls into the latter category -- though we do have a much better idea what's out there nowadays than even 20 years ago and can do a better job calculating these probabilities. You're definitely correct, though, I was only referring to the "unconditional" probability of a 6+ mile bolide clobbering us.


24 posted on 07/08/2004 1:21:28 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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