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Posted by Dale Gribble on Feb-08-2006 18:39:

What are the odds of dying...

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For those of you who wonder just how safe you will be once you've given up all of your Constitutional freedoms and rights, it may be a valuable exercise to see what the odds are that you, personally, will die in one of these terrorist attacks now so often alluded to by Rumsfeld and Ashcroft and their little puppet, the moron.

Using the odds of dying in a terrorist related attack during your lifetime as noted below from the CDC, let's compare them to the odds of dying from a long list of real, everyday dangers.
1 in 88,000 of a terrorist attack
1 in 1,500,000 of a terrorist-caused shopping mall disaster assuming one such incident a week and you shop two hours a week
1 in 55,000,000 in a terrorist-caused plane disaster assuming one such incident a month and you fly once a month
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Odds of �
death by assault in your lifetime: 182/1
death by falling : 250/1
death by meteor striking the earth this year: 300/1
death by firearm: 325/1
death by poison: 1,200/1
death in a car crash: 5,000/1
death by choking on food or something else: 5,000/1
death by drowning: 9000/1
death by accidental hanging: 12/000/1
death by murder: 20,000/1
death by an animal drawn vehicle: 31,000/1
death by dog attack: 700,000/1
death in the bathtub: 1,000,000/1
death by a tornado: 2,000,000/1
death by falling out of bed: 2,000,000/1
Odds of being killed in a terrorist WMD attack: 6,000,000/1

Posted by Marc Summers on Feb-08-2006 19:00:

some of those odds I do not like

Posted by josh4 on Feb-08-2006 20:45:

... That's tonight on Fox News!

Posted by Floorfiller on Feb-08-2006 21:25:

death by meteor 300/1 ? i dunno about that...

Posted by Psygnosis on Feb-09-2006 00:41:

How do you die from falling out of your bed?

I mean do all Americans sleep on 2 story beds or something?

Posted by Fir3start3r on Feb-09-2006 01:04:

death by meteor striking the earth this year: 300/1 > death by a tornado: 2,000,000/1 ???

I got issues with that...

Posted by kush paintings on Feb-09-2006 01:42:

I most definently have huge issues with the meteor number, as in my geology class last semester that was taught by a NASA scientist we were presented with a memo sent to all workers at NASA about reasons to further develop permanent human settlements on the moon, among them was to escape a meteor/astroid disaster. The possibility of this happening over the next 10 years was 1 in a couple of thousand if I recall correctly and 1 in a couple hundred over the next hundred years. We are actually do for a major impact event relatively soon (next century or so).

Posted by Lepanto on Feb-09-2006 01:48:

quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r
death by meteor striking the earth this year: 300/1 > death by a tornado: 2,000,000/1 ???

I got issues with that...

cause those odds are probably fake

Posted by Arbiter on Feb-09-2006 01:54:

quote:
Originally posted by kush paintings
I most definently have huge issues with the meteor number, as in my geology class last semester that was taught by a NASA scientist we were presented with a memo sent to all workers at NASA about reasons to further develop permanent human settlements on the moon, among them was to escape a meteor/astroid disaster. The possibility of this happening over the next 10 years was 1 in a couple of thousand if I recall correctly and 1 in a couple hundred over the next hundred years. We are actually do for a major impact event relatively soon (next century or so).

Well, most projections seem to suggest impact events of greater or equal magnitude to Tunguska every 300 or so years. That would seem to suggest we've got on average 200 more years before another event like that, and even an event approximating Tunguska is unlikely to cause overwhelming casualties unless it occurs in a location of extraordinarily dense population.

Posted by Marc Summers on Feb-09-2006 03:03:

quote:
Originally posted by Lepanto
cause those odds are probably fake

bitch please, I got hit by a meteor last year, wanna see scars?

Posted by Lepanto on Feb-09-2006 04:06:

quote:
Originally posted by Marc Summers
bitch please, I got hit by a meteor last year, wanna see scars?

bring it on sucka!

how is murder less likely than "accidental" wtf?!

Posted by donnybrasco on Feb-10-2006 08:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Marc Summers
bitch please, I got hit by a meteor last year, wanna see scars?

That was probably the one I caught and threw back up there...sorry dude, my bad.

Posted by DrUg_Tit0 on Feb-10-2006 11:57:

quote:
Originally posted by Arbiter
Well, most projections seem to suggest impact events of greater or equal magnitude to Tunguska every 300 or so years. That would seem to suggest we've got on average 200 more years before another event like that, and even an event approximating Tunguska is unlikely to cause overwhelming casualties unless it occurs in a location of extraordinarily dense population.

Yeah, but that can happen tomorrow or it can happen in 2000 years. Events like that are pretty stochastic.

Posted by metalgearsolid on Feb-10-2006 15:11:

Does it count that an asteroid is expected to hit us in the year 2029 or actually that it might come close to earth so the scientists don't know but it is reason for concern.