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Crucifer
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Posted: Wed 28 Nov , 2007 3:29 pm
A song outlasts a dynasty.
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But that's being hit by x or y.

I'm talking about dying from x or y.

This is a fact by the way. I saw it on Qi...

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Dave_LF
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Posted: Wed 28 Nov , 2007 5:05 pm
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I'm still skeptical, unless the point they're trying to make is that you're more likely to die in an asteroid-induced planetary extinction than you are from a lightning strike (which I'd also be skeptical of).


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Crucifer
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That's exactly the point. Loads of people have survived lightning strikes.

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Dave_LF
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Posted: Wed 28 Nov , 2007 10:36 pm
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It's true that the probability of dying given that you're struck by lightning is less than the probability of dying given that a major asteroid impact has occurred. But it's not very meaningful to compare conditional probabilities when they're conditioned on different things. The probability of getting struck by lightning in the first place is so much greater than the prior probability of an asteroid impact that lightning is still the more dangerous of the two.


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Crucifer
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I saw it on Qi I tells ya!

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Dave_LF
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I don't doubt it. :)


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Posted: Thu 29 Nov , 2007 2:38 am
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Technically we're being hit by meteors, or at least their remains, all the time. A not insignificant portion of the soil of the earth is composed of particles of meteorites have impacted the planet over the past six billion years.

Carry on.

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