Comment on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 17, chapter 86

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:15:25 GMT

You would have to get extremely (un)lucky to do so. A human, lying down, takes up about 1 m^2 of space. Even if you fired it at a city with a population density of 10000 people/km^2, you'd still only have about a 1% chance of hitting someone (if you could even aim well enough to hit a city from 12000 km away).

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