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Re:1/3200 chance someone will be hit by a satellite next week by mynameishere on Sunday September 18, 2011 @08:42PM (#3011746)
What percentage of the earth is occupied by a human?

51,006,560,000,000 square meters landmass on earth.

about 6 billion humans. So they take up about

6,000,000,000 square meters.

or .00118 percent of the earth. So roughly a 1 in 100000 chance of a single piece hitting a person. I'm too drunk to know if this is nonsense.

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Re:1/3200 chance someone will be hit by a satellite next week by mynameishere on Sunday September 18, 2011 @09:41PM (#3011858)
Reply to jcitme:

All of your comments are [dead] and you are probably unaware of it. There is a weird heuristic here that does that occasionally to non-trolls.

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Re:1/3200 chance someone will be hit by a satellite next week by growt on Monday September 19, 2011 @08:52AM (#3013308)
Well humans are not evenly distributed on earth and the area where the satellite will hit is within some known boundaries.
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Re:1/3200 chance someone will be hit by a satellite next week by william42 on Sunday September 18, 2011 @07:54PM (#3011634)
Dead Like Me?
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Re:1/3200 chance someone will be hit by a satellite next week by maeon3 on Sunday September 18, 2011 @08:32PM (#3011720)
Well, if it does hit you, it will probably be going faster than the speed of sound so you won't have time to realize what happened. Will there be a gps coordinate updated somewhere to find out of this chunk of metal is going to take down a skyscraper? How fast is it going to be moving?
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Re:1/3200 chance someone will be hit by a satellite next week by nopassrecover on Sunday September 18, 2011 @11:36PM (#3012121)
Pretty sure you'd realise what's happening. After all, we notice lightning flashes.
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Re:1/3200 chance someone will be hit by a satellite next week by teedog on Sunday September 18, 2011 @07:02PM (#3011529)
Such a misleading title. I think this means the chances of any individual person getting hit is 1 in 21,680,754,240,000?
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Re:1/3200 chance someone will be hit by a satellite next week by dotBen on Sunday September 18, 2011 @07:57PM (#3011641)
No, to quote from the article:

"The odds of it hitting someone anywhere on the planet are 1 in 3,200. "

Perhaps you are confusing "chances of any person getting hit" with "chances of you getting hit", which is not what the title says.

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