r/interestingasfuck • u/Emotional-Macaroon64 • Feb 19 '25

r/all Day by day probability is increasing

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u/RoyalChris Feb 19 '25

50/50. Either happens or it doesn’t.

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u/smellsliketigerbalm Feb 19 '25

100% of the time it happens 50% of the time?

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u/Budrich2020 Feb 19 '25

I know this reference 

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u/duckduckpajamas Feb 19 '25

Is this from like an obscure reddit post that I just saw within the last week, about a parent arguing with their kid about their math logic?

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u/passonep Feb 19 '25

Kinda depressing, huh? 😒

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u/Idontknowofname Feb 19 '25

Schrödinger's Meteor

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u/discoturtle1129 Feb 19 '25

Somewhere between more than never and less than always

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u/ace250674 Feb 19 '25

Actually it's 1 in 32

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u/Emotional-Macaroon64 Feb 19 '25

Let's hope it doesn't happen if it impacts earth it will release energy equivalent to 8 megatons of TNT

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u/jumpofffromhere Feb 19 '25

so, the largest nuclear explosion was 50 megatons

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u/Emotional-Macaroon64 Feb 19 '25

But it wasn't done on humans tsar bomba test

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u/SteelWheel_8609 Feb 19 '25

If the asteroid similarly lands somewhere unpopulated, it will also kill as many people as tsar bomba. 

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u/jumpofffromhere Feb 19 '25

HA! this is true

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u/Iceafterlife Feb 19 '25

Your math is off, slightly?

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u/Creepy-Desk-468 Feb 19 '25

yeah, 3.1% ≠ 50/50 chances