----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: The Space Station
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 06:40:47PM -0600, dendriite wrote:
> > The odds of being killed by an asteroid are greater that being struck by
> > lightning or being killed in a plane crash. It sounds strange, but
asteroids
> > (like weapons of mass destruction) kill so many when a fall does occur,
that
> > it greatly increases the odds for a single individual.
>
> I've had several occasionals recently to want to look up statistics on
> this sort of thing.
>
> Where did you get your data on the odds quoted above? Any other
suggestions
> on where to find that sort of information?
>
IIRC the newsfolk claimed it came from NASA. I heard this tidbit several
different times from several sources with varying degrees of detail.
Possibly repeated on Discovery/TLC when they were riding the asteroid crash
wave.
xponent
rob
