What are the odds?

[NY65912]

Man is hit by a meteorite. I'm guessing that winning the Powerball still has higher odds.

Meteorite Strike Kills 1, Injures 3 At College in India

[GH85Carrera]

Well if only one person in the many billions of people in in the history of the world has been killed by one, the odd of winning the power ball has to be lower.

[Jim Richards]

I would enjoy a lotto win more.

[vash]

i read it as the meteorite missed the guy. he got hit by the building parts.

RIP nevertheless. that would suck.

[widebody911]

The True Story of History's Only Known Meteorite Victim

[1990C4S]

Odds against it are so high that it never happened...

Uh, it probably wasn

[JeremyD]

An asteroid kills one person every 7,000 years. Imagine being that unlucky.
You have a 1 in 300 million chance of getting killed by a shark, or die in a fairground accident. Go ahead, that roller coaster is super safe!
The odds of getting killed by a falling coconut are slightly bigger: 1 in 250 million. Unless you live in Finland, then it’s 1 in 3,897,546,999,056,000.
Chances of dying in a plane crash: 1 in 11 million, although those odds go way down when you don’t fly.
Getting killed by lightning: 1 in 10 million. Those are the same odds as getting killed by escaped radiation from a nuclear reactor. Except if you live near Chernobyl.
Dying in a terrorist attack: 1 in 9.3 million.
Burnt by hot water: 1 in 5 million.
1 in 4.4 million: chance of a left-handed person dying from using a right-handed product.
1 in 3.5 million: snakebite.
1 in 3 million: food poisoning.
1 in 2 million: falling off a ladder.
1 in 685,000: drowning in the bathtub.
1 in 500,000: dying in a train wreck.
1 in 43,500: getting killed during work.
1 in 8,000: dying in a car wreck.
Dying from cancer: 1 in 5, while dying from a heart attack carries even worse odds: 1 in 2.5.

[A930Rocket]

You forgot the lottery.

1 in 292,000,000 IIRC.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

I would enjoy a lotto win more.

Have you tried being hit by a meteorite?

[sand_man]

Wait, this didn't happen in Florida?

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by JeremyD

An asteroid kills one person every 7,000 years. Imagine being that unlucky.
You have a 1 in 300 million chance of getting killed by a shark, or die in a fairground accident. Go ahead, that roller coaster is super safe!
The odds of getting killed by a falling coconut are slightly bigger: 1 in 250 million. Unless you live in Finland, then it’s 1 in 3,897,546,999,056,000.
Chances of dying in a plane crash: 1 in 11 million, although those odds go way down when you don’t fly.
Getting killed by lightning: 1 in 10 million. Those are the same odds as getting killed by escaped radiation from a nuclear reactor. Except if you live near Chernobyl.
Dying in a terrorist attack: 1 in 9.3 million.
Burnt by hot water: 1 in 5 million.
1 in 4.4 million: chance of a left-handed person dying from using a right-handed product.
1 in 3.5 million: snakebite.
1 in 3 million: food poisoning.
1 in 2 million: falling off a ladder.
1 in 685,000: drowning in the bathtub.
1 in 500,000: dying in a train wreck.
1 in 43,500: getting killed during work.
1 in 8,000: dying in a car wreck.
Dying from cancer: 1 in 5, while dying from a heart attack carries even worse odds: 1 in 2.5.

I understand that these are the generic odds of the overall population. Where one lives changes odds for many of these thing a LOT. My odds while living in Oklahoma of dying from shark attacks or falling coconuts is much much lower than a resident of California or Hawaii.

[doug_porsche]

As I (not so) jokingly say.

The odds are something to 1, and occasionally 1 is a really big number.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by doug_porsche

As I (not so) jokingly say.

The odds are something to 1, and occasionally 1 is a really big number.

Yep, and to quote Will Rogers. "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else"

[Arizona_928]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

Have you tried being hit by a meteorite?

sleeping under the stars count?