From: Joerg Arndt <arndt@jjj.de> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Is the asteroid belt a "glider gun" ?
* Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> [Sep 23. 2011 19:49]:
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"You're way more likely to be hit by lightning" than by the satellite, McDowell said.
"You're more likely to be hit by lightning than being killed by a disaster with the generation of nuclear power" was used in Germany to demonstrate how tiny the latter chance would be.
The campaign was stopped after some manager in said industry was killed by a lightning.
jj, who has witnessed several lightnings from scary close.
P.S.: I am not afraid of space debris.
---------------------------------------------------------- Zero deaths from nuclear accidents at commercial power plants in the United States, at least one steam explosion death at a nuclear plant. Zero injuries at Three Mile Island. Three deaths in 1961 at SL-1, an army operated nuclear power facility. -- Gene