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| Author: | Mycenae [ 09 Nov 2005, 08:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Ever wonder what the odds of dying are? |
So here's the thing - I hate flying. I f**king hate it with unbridled intensity. I just don't like the idea of being strapped inside a giant metal tube travelling at near 1,000km/h, completely powerless to do anything in the case of an emergency. I will soon be flying home for a holiday, and thus my thoughts turn to this fear. So to calm my worries, I decide to look up the statistical odds of dying in a plane crash. In the process, I stumble across this site: http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm. This is a table displaying the statistical odds of dying in just about every situation imaginable, and its a goldmine. Very interesting. The first column of numbers shows the number of people who died from the specified cause, the second your odds of dying from the specified cause in one year (in the form 1:x) and the last the odds of dying in the average lifetime. Here are a few interesting ones to start with: Number of people who died in 2002 due to: Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces - 2,727 Inhalation of gastric contents - 369 Ignition or melting of nightwear - 13 Narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens] n.e.c. - 8,264 Car occupant: 16,377 Assault by firearm - 11,829 |
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| Author: | barda [ 09 Nov 2005, 08:34 ] |
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Man, I love flying. It's f**king sweet when you break through the clouds and can see everything. Including the mountain shaped clouds, thunder-boomers. |
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| Author: | Jesse [ 09 Nov 2005, 16:10 ] |
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You know, I'm sorry, but I just have to put this here... Socrates wrote: To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils. So why worry, eh? 
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| Author: | Pirogoeth [ 09 Nov 2005, 19:25 ] |
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why was he banned? |
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