I don't like these odds.

In My Humble Opinion
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Giant asteroid heading towards Earth

Now, granted, the estimated time of potential impact is over 10 years away, and we’ve got plenty of time to fire the SDMB weapon of choice at it, but do the odds of 1:909,000 seem pretty, well, possible?? I may be old fashioned, but if you don’t think something’s going to happen, I want at least 1:1,000,000 odds. The more zeroes the better. Needing scientific notation after the last zero in “butt-loads-of-zeroes-zillion” is even better. Everyone knows that anything less than one in a million is a certainty, and that the astronomers are all going to go out and hoarde supplies, get the best batteries, tastiest water, the soup that tastes most like homemade, and totally screw over the rest of us.:mad:

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I better go buy bread and milk, considering that winning the Powerball lottery is 1 in 120,526,770.

Remember back in 1997 or so when the asteroid was going to hit us in 2028? My band at the time wrote a song about it that I still have as an mp3 :cool:

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Bruce, that may be, but there are also a cubic shit-load of attempt to win the Powerball lottery before the lottery is actually won, while only this one asteroid is trying to hit earth.

And casey, Pratchett fans know that 1 in a million long-shots are certain to happen, but anything less or more than that is quite unlikely.

[Nobby] Shoot it in the vulnerables! [/Nobby]

-lv

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off to google “Pratchett”…

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I know, that was a bad joke.

Check out Measuring Asteroid Threats from space.com. Good stuff:

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Better luck at amazon

My favorites are the night watch series, which start with “Guards! Guards!”

-lv

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Wasn’t there a prediction by someone about an asteroid hitting earth at such a force that it would disrupt the rotation, and move the north and south poles to what would be our new equator?

or did I just make that up in my head?

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Wasn’t there a prediction by someone about an asteroid hitting earth at such a force that it would disrupt the rotation, and move the north and south poles to what would be our new equator?

or did I just make that up in my head?

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Wasn’t there a prediction by someone about an asteroid hitting earth at such a force that it would double post?

or did I just make that up in my head?

Also, Casey1505, IMHO is

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Duh.

I’ll quit being a smartass now.

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I figured I was OK, since my name’s Paul, not Frank.

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Only Frank’s topics have to be less than cosmic. Everyone else’s can have unlimited cosmic overtones.

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See, because it says “For frank exchanges of less-than-cosmic topics” in the forum description. Get it? GET IT??!?

[sub]What I’m trying to say, in my own special way, is that the joke was better without the follow-up :D[/sub]

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I thought the follow-up would have been better without the joke, IMHO.

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We’re safe.

I’m much more comfortable with a 1:2,200,000 chance. However, now all the debt settling checks I was planning on mailing on March 18, 2014 have to clear.