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6clamairy
Har har.
Still, I have to admit, I do wonder how much longer we can dodge these things. They say we're overdue for a whopper.
Still, I have to admit, I do wonder how much longer we can dodge these things. They say we're overdue for a whopper.
7Choreocrat
5 - So I've got time to finish my thesis then? Umm... cool!
8JPB
#6 They say we're overdue for a whopper.
Asteroids aren't like earthquakes. Pressure to have one hit doesn't build up over time.
Asteroids aren't like earthquakes. Pressure to have one hit doesn't build up over time.
10maggie1944
Thank goodness, whew!
12reading_fox
"Speaking in terms of PROBABILITIES, we're overdue"
You mean if you roll a dice 6 times and don't get 6 on any of the throws you are more likely to get 6 on the 7th throw? and even more likely on the 8th?
It's tricky to describe probabilites in words. My best attempt is something along the lines of:
If we re-ran history lots of times, the result we have just seen wouldn't occur very often.
You mean if you roll a dice 6 times and don't get 6 on any of the throws you are more likely to get 6 on the 7th throw? and even more likely on the 8th?
It's tricky to describe probabilites in words. My best attempt is something along the lines of:
If we re-ran history lots of times, the result we have just seen wouldn't occur very often.
13clamairy
Let me put it in the most simple terms possible, though I think you know exactly what I'm talking about. ;o)
Earth gets hit a lot. (It averages out to once every 10 million years.)
We haven't been hit in a very long time. (Last major strike was 65 million years ago.)
We're not talking small potatoes like the Tunguska Event here.
And I wasn't implying that asteroids are lined up at regular intervals waiting to strike us.
Earth gets hit a lot. (It averages out to once every 10 million years.)
We haven't been hit in a very long time. (Last major strike was 65 million years ago.)
We're not talking small potatoes like the Tunguska Event here.
And I wasn't implying that asteroids are lined up at regular intervals waiting to strike us.
14MrAndrew
Unless they're being hurled at us from the planet Klandathu. That would skew the probabilities.
Damn bugs.
Damn bugs.
15Choreocrat
MrA, I'm not listening to your opinion until you do your civic duty and become a citizen.
19MrAndrew
Tsk. Get up to speed on your contemporary giant insect / alien invader movies. They didn't stop making them in 1959, you know.
I give you Eight Legged Freaks as exhibit B.
I give you Eight Legged Freaks as exhibit B.
