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      An article about the Cello Chix

      February 8th, 2008 by mike d. in Quickthoughts

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      Authored by: mike d.

      ATTENTION.

      February 8th, 2008 by mike d. in RockStar


      The Guitar has Landed.

      Authored by: mike d.

      Satellite Carnage

      February 8th, 2008 by mike d. in Geekdom, Features

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      Jesse did some analysis to see the likelihood of anyone getting hit by that falling satellite.

      check it out:

      WORST CASE SCENARIO:

      Assumptions:

      No one is stacked, everyone is spread out (no two-story bldgs)
      Everyone is adult (worst case, takes more area)
      Avg adult human height: 166.5 cm (i took wiki’s stats by M/F and race, and average everything)
      Avg adult human width: 46 cm (total guess)
      People are rectangles lying down
      The satellite is < or = size of a person (not true, but whatever)
      World Pop: 6.5 billion
      Earth Surface Area: 510,065,600 km^2

      From that, I get a 1 in 100,000 chance that a person will be struck by the satellite
      Also, the chances that a PARTICULAR person will get hit (i.e. YOU) is 1.5*10-15, or 1.5 in a quadrillion
      NOT LIKELY BUD, and that's worst case. Well, the satellite probably has a bigger hit radius, let's say 10-12 ft, (twice the size of a person lying down), so then it would be 1 in 50K for any person, and 3 in a quadrillion for you, worst worst case.

      A commenter on this page pegs it at around 1 in 82,000 by a different method (so we’re pretty close).

      Of course, if people ARE in a high-rise, and it comes straight down out of the sky (unlikely) in that location, it could easily take out a few hundo for MAX carnage.

      Authored by: mike d.

      I heart Groundhog day.

      February 8th, 2008 by mike d. in Quickthoughts

      Groundhog day was last Saturday. I’ve always enjoyed Groundhog day. It’s just a super-fun holiday. Part of this is, of course, because of the movie. One thing that I loved doing when watching that movie was trying to figure out how long Phil Conners was actually stuck in Groundhog day. Well, Blogus Groundhogus has the answer.

      Fascinating!

      Authored by: mike d.
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