25 September 2011

One in 3,200 chance a person will be hit by 18,000mph out-of-control craft today

So keep your helmets on!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2040818/On-alert-satellite-crash-One-3-200-chance-person-hit-18-000mph-control-craft-today.html

8 comments:

  1. .....or even 6 sets of Sink the Bismarck arriving....;-)

    All the best,

    DC

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  2. 1. in 3200 chance..? wouldn´t be very special then if you got a lump of spacecraft on your head then.Just a mo...the odds are pretty strange. If there is a 1 in 72,999.999 chance (or whatever it is) of winning the lottery and there is often a winner cos there a 72, 999,99 other tickets against you winning then the worlds population of say 8 billion divided by the odds of 3200..that means about 25,000,000 people will be twotted by a lump of spaceship in the next couople of days..or??
    Cheers
    paul

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  3. In the words of Han Solo, "never tell me the odds!"

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  4. Blammo! Right in Alberta. Now who said North America wasn't going to be hit, the scientist that thought it wouldn't plummet so soon, I imagine?

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  5. These are my kind of Odds! It's like winning the "Fate's a Bitch" award. "Man killed my falling Satelite today. Film at 11."

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  6. Good point Paul - but if the satellite had broken up into billions of bits during re-entry, that would be possible!

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  7. Uhm, billion of bits that burn and are pulverized entering in the atmosphera...

    IMHO :D

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