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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

Last edited by Dale Gribble on Feb-08-2006 at 20:49

some of those odds I do not like

... That's tonight on Fox News!

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

How do you die from falling out of your bed?

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

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

I got issues with that...

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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).

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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

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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.

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Originally posted by Lepanto cause those odds are probably fake

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

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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?!

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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.