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Old 12-27-2015, 10:52 PM   #71 (permalink)
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I didn't say that.
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Old 12-27-2015, 10:57 PM   #72 (permalink)
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Difficult to find the exact statistic you want, but these might help put the risk of being killed in a terrorist attack into perspective:-

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The 2011 Report on Terrorism from the National Counter Terrorism Center notes that Americans are just as likely to be “crushed to death by their televisions or furniture each year” as they are to be killed by terrorists. Indeed, the Senior Research Scientist for the Space Science Institute (Alan W. Harris) estimates that the odds of being killed by a terrorist attack is about the same as being hit by an asteroid .
I've read somewhere there wasn't a reported case of a any one being killed by a meteor. I looked it up online. According to the National History Museum in London "there have been no recorded deaths due to a meteorite fall." Just how many humans have space rocks killed, anyway? - SciGuy
I'm not sure of NHM stance on the 1490 Ch'ing-yang event, whether they recognize it or not.

In my opinion, I see that Alan W. Harris is making an apple to orange comparison. He is using probability of a future event i.e. asteroid colliding with Earth and comparing that to odds based on stats of actual historical events. Since 1970 there have been 4,000 deaths do to terrorism, compared to zero deaths from asteroids.
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Old 12-27-2015, 10:58 PM   #73 (permalink)
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Be sure to invest in at least three or four of these anti-terrorist hats before you go to Europe, Exo.



I've also heard that taping bacon to your chest deters Islamic terrorists like a positive magnet against a negative one.
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Old 12-27-2015, 11:30 PM   #74 (permalink)
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We'll see who's laughing when Europe starts burning. Hint: it won't be you, and it won't be me.
You watch too much news. This is a pretty clear case of you having no idea what's going on in one part of the world, but letting media alarmism inform your entire opinion. And yet you dismiss the possibility of being killed by a tsunami in Japan because you live in Japan and you know from personal experience just how unlikely that is. Why don't you just assume that your ignorance of the current events of anyplace that isn't Japan means that making the kind of claim you're making is premature at best, and idiotic at worst.
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Old 12-27-2015, 11:34 PM   #75 (permalink)
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You watch too much news. This is a pretty clear case of you having no idea what's going on in one part of the world, but letting media alarmism inform your entire opinion. And yet you dismiss the possibility of being killed by a tsunami in Japan because you live in Japan and you know from personal experience just how unlikely that is. Why don't you just assume that your ignorance of the current events of anyplace that isn't Japan means that making the kind of claim you're making is premature at best, and idiotic at worst.
Who needs rationality when you can be constantly terrified for your life?
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Old 12-27-2015, 11:42 PM   #76 (permalink)
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Old 12-27-2015, 11:49 PM   #80 (permalink)
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^We know that you can't convince someone undergoing a nervous breakdown with things like words. Visuals are far more effective.

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