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In article <1992Oct30.174906.20091@aston.ac.uk>, evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes...
>komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark 'Henry' Komarinski) writes:
>: 
>: There is a greater change of dying from a train wreck or a car accident than
>: getting plowed by the comet. 
>: Another thing to consider:  How big is this comet?  It doesn't have to hit
>: us to do some major damage.  YOOGE tidal waves, earthquakes, knocking
>: the earth out of it's orbit, etc.  Y'know...minor worldwide disaters.

Actually, I think that if you just average the deaths per year over 100
millions years or so, the odds of getting killed by a comet or meteor
is several times higher than the annual odds of dying in a car crash.  
NASA recently reported such a calculation.  Of course, the difference is 
that a meteor kills billions of people all at once, but only once every few
10 million years or so. 

-Scott
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