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Default How healthy is this? You do the math

On Jul 2, 11:28*am, blake murphy > wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:20:30 -0700, Mark Thorson >
> wrote:
>
> >Here's an interesting table from
> >http://zoology.muohio.edu/oris/ZOO46...s/15b_462.html

>
> >Table 12. Risks which increase chance of death by 0.000001

>
> what the hell is this even supposed to mean? *as far as i know
> everyone's chance of death is 100% no matter who the **** you are or
> what the **** you do.


You're forgetting Isaiah or Abraham or whoever that guy was who got
taken up in the fiery chariot.

Still 1/ 1*10^30 or so is not good odds

John Kane Kingston ON Canada