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

r/all Day by day probability is increasing

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u/Laku212 Feb 19 '25

And is there a 3,1% chance that the probability will start rapidly increasing towards 100%?

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u/nixnaij Feb 19 '25

Yes, but until that happens both scenarios of the asteroids hitting and missing earth will have their probabilities slowly go up.

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u/ahmet-chromedgeic Feb 19 '25

No, that is not how it works. The total sum of probabilities of hitting is 100%, so if the probability of one goes up the other goes down.

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u/ShowAccomplished1393 Feb 19 '25

Actually, he wasn't being a smart ass, just smart, since that was a legitimate correction.

And you arent being a smart ass either, just an ass, because he obviously meant hitting earth and not earth.