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buybuydandavis comments on [Link] Throwback Thursday: Are asteroids dangerous? - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 23 May 2015 08:00AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 24 May 2015 06:13:11AM *  3 points [-]

The article was per year, not lifetime odds. Depending on the detailed assumptions, I'd eye ball those two numbers as actually quite close, given the inherent uncertainty.

One-in-70,000,000. On average.