As we used to say in the service, "Close only counts with shotguns and hand grenades, and sometime horseshoes!"
At 08:13 PM 6/21/2002 +0200, you wrote: >Dear list > >I am a bit surprised by all this fuss in the media every few months about >how lucky we are escaping once again the big hit. As a scientist I can say >that the probability that an asteroid cruising nearer to earth than the >Moon actually hit the earth is 1/10000*; the public will laugh about these >threatening news long before the 10000th anoucement like the one we just >have... >As a hunter when my bullet hit the ground 100** meters away from the deer I >do not shout "Yeah, I almost got it", I try to disappear into the hole, >full of shame.. > >*: if you want a more precise figure: square of the ratio of earth radius >to moon-earth distance. >* equivalent size ratio with the deer being the Earth. > > >Pierre > > > >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
