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Originally Posted by mithrandir
There has been one person reported to have been killed by a meteor in the last 100 years. That's 1 in ~7 billion.
Since records started being collected for Australia in 1791 there have been 216 fatal shark attacks. Say 1 in 140,000 for the population in those 200+ years, or 1 in 27 million per year.
About 400 people die a year on NSW roads. That's 1 in 18,000.
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Excellent statistics, Mithrandir.
So many "fashionable worries" and "public panics" regarding things that are very unlikely to happen, usually fanned by a frenzy of coverage in the media.
The town of Wethersfield, CT is reputed to have been hit by two meteorites in a period of 11 years. Just ask the residents of this town how often meteorites hit; they say "it happens all the time around here!"
Apparently, both meteorites caused damage to a house!