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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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