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It’s been as high as 3.1% No one would be cool if I pointed a gun at them and said there was only a 1 in 32 chance that I’d hit them.


If you said there was a 3.1% chance that a gun was going to be fired in a random location on the planet and kill 10,000 people in that area, the probability of both those things happening and affecting you is negligible.


That’s not even remotely comparable. This wouldn’t have been an extinction level event.


Note: I didn’t say kill.


Well then get used to this risk, because this sized rock was a once-a-century level event. You were living with this risk every year and you just didn’t know it.




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