[meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids
From: George N. <treasurehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:46 2004 Message-ID: <001d01c19d3b$ab677540$1885f718_at_tvc.chartermi.net> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01C19D11.C21BEF20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable They are taking into account that at least several thousand people will = likely be killed in one instance. That effects the odds greatly. = Example: if an asteroid struck today and killed 12,500 people. Then the = odds would be accurate. George Nicula ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Sharkkb8_at_aol.com=20 To: jim_at_catchafallingstar.com ; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com=20 Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids Your answer is at the bottom of the following webpage.=20 http://geowww.gcn.ou.edu/~jahern/impacts/=20 If the odds of dying of an asteroid/comet strike are 20,000 to 1, = wouldn't that mean that 12,500 people (out of the USA's 250,000,000) = figure to die that way? =20 There is something wrong with this (surely), what is it?=20 Gregory=20 ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01C19D11.C21BEF20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>They are taking into account that at least several = thousand=20 people will likely be killed in one instance. That effects the = odds=20 greatly. Example: if an asteroid struck today and killed 12,500=20 people. Then the odds would be accurate.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>George Nicula</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE=20 style=3D"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B>=20 <A title=3DSharkkb8_at_aol.com = href=3D"mailto:Sharkkb8_at_aol.com">Sharkkb8@aol.com</A>=20 </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=3Djim_at_catchafallingstar.com=20 = href=3D"mailto:jim_at_catchafallingstar.com">jim@catchafallingstar.com</A> = ; <A=20 title=3Dmeteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com=20 = href=3D"mailto:meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com">meteorite-list@meteor= itecentral.com</A>=20 </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 14, 2002 = 3:29=20 PM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [meteorite-list] = Astronomers=20 Survey Sky For Big Asteroids</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=3Darial,helvetica><FONT size=3D2><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE=20 style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px = solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"=20 TYPE=3D"CITE">Your answer is at the bottom of the following webpage.=20 <BR><BR><A=20 = href=3D"http://geowww.gcn.ou.edu/~jahern/impacts/">http://geowww.gcn.ou.e= du/~jahern/impacts/</A>=20 <BR></FONT><FONT lang=3D0 face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D3=20 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></FONT><FONT lang=3D0 = face=3DArial=20 color=3D#000000 size=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF"><BR>If the odds of dying = of an=20 asteroid/comet strike are 20,000 to 1, wouldn't that mean that 12,500 = people=20 (out of the USA's 250,000,000) figure to die that way? =20 <BR><BR>There is something wrong with this (surely), what is it?=20 <BR><BR>Gregory</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01C19D11.C21BEF20-- Received on Mon 14 Jan 2002 03:40:13 PM PST |
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