- ultratog1028
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Posted by: Panties
I'm learning it in school right now, and it's so useless, it's a math invented solely for math, it has no real life application, except for maybe saying like a percent of something. (Like 80% of the world is water)
However, you can't use it to guess chances. "There's a 20% chance of rain tomorrow". NO. It either will rain, or it won't.
Right now there is a 50/50 chance that an asteroid will smash through my roof.
it will either happen. or it wont.
its like heads or tails.
there is also a 50/50 chance that a unicorn will appear in my kitchen in the next 5 minutes.
It will either happen. or it wont.
No there isn't. The chances of an asteroid hitting the earth are calculated on paths of asteroids, size, range, gravity, proximity etc. Then you must calculate how large your house is, and unless your house is the size of 50% of the earth, there isn't a 50/50 chance an asteroid will hit your house. In fact, odds are that 3 out of 4 asteroids with mass large enough to sustain entry into the Earth's atmosphere won't even hit land. then another 90% of that 1/4th won't hit a civilized area.