workingpoor Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 First ever recorded case in history apparently, what's the odds on that? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-bus-driver-meteorite-killed-death-first-ever-a6861051.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steppenpig Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 what's the odds on that? Tell it to the dinosaurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 First ever recorded case in history apparently, what's the odds on that? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-bus-driver-meteorite-killed-death-first-ever-a6861051.html I contest the bus driver's claim to a place in the record books.. In 1954 a woman was hit by a meteorite that crashed through her roof. Her relatives claimed that her death years later was due to the Press 'frenzy' that surrounded the incident. A simple country woman, she '' never did recover" said those close to her. Like Princess Di, another victim of the media.... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/02/130220-russia-meteorite-ann-hodges-science-space-hit/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I'm always wary of rapidly falling pianos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I'm always wary of rapidly falling pianos. How else would a piano fall ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 First ever recorded case in history apparently, what's the odds on that? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-bus-driver-meteorite-killed-death-first-ever-a6861051.html duplicate post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 The meteorite strike.. was previously blamed on the detonation of explosives that were accidentally left behind during the construction of the college. How odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justthisbloke Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 How else would a piano fall ? The same rate as everything else according to that Italian bloke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 The same rate as everything else according to that Italian bloke. Silvio Berlusconi and knickers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Loo Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Easy to calculate. You can either approximate the odds in terms of the number of humans who have ever lived or, you could calculate it in terms of time. Here you could say 'time' began with the Big Bang but more challengingly we could calculate using the time that may have existed before the Big Bang. and more interestingly, how much time is there after now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justthisbloke Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 and more interestingly, how much time is there after now? You can work that out probabilistically. V interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument Also look up the German Tank Problem from WWII. The allies captured a few of the Germans latest snazzy tank and got the serial numbers. The problem was to work out how many of these dangerous machines are out there, but the only Intel was the captured serial numbers of a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 First ever recorded case in history apparently, what's the odds on that? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-bus-driver-meteorite-killed-death-first-ever-a6861051.html NASA have weighed in on this and discredited the claim. Apparently there is a 'compensation' element here. Ahem... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/world/asia/that-wasnt-a-meteorite-that-killed-a-man-in-india-nasa-says.html?_r=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 NASA have weighed in on this and discredited the claim. Apparently there is a 'compensation' element here. Ahem... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/world/asia/that-wasnt-a-meteorite-that-killed-a-man-in-india-nasa-says.html?_r=0 It seems to me that the role of NASA these days is to simply deny anything that happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 It seems to me that the role of NASA these days is to simply deny anything that happens They'll deny that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eight Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 It seems to me that the role of NASA these days is to simply deny anything that happens Apparently the role of NASA, with it's near misses and heroic failures, is to make space travel look hard. When in reality it's trivially easy, apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendy Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 How else would a piano fall ? Depends what celestial body it was falling in/on I guess, if any! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 First ever recorded case in history apparently, what's the odds on that? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-bus-driver-meteorite-killed-death-first-ever-a6861051.html 100%, now that it has happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 First ever recorded case in history apparently, what's the odds on that? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-bus-driver-meteorite-killed-death-first-ever-a6861051.html Hmm, calculate number of square metres of land (x), number of meteor strikes per year on land (y) (presume each one hits a sq m of land). At any given moment in time the sq m of land I occupy has a y/x chance of being hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knock out johnny Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Hmm, calculate number of square metres of land (x), number of meteor strikes per year on land (y) (presume each one hits a sq m of land). At any given moment in time the sq m of land I occupy has a y/x chance of being hit. What if you are on a boat in the sea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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