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Originally Posted by Noclevername
I don't know, what's the cost per life?
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It's about 2-3 millions dollars US for a man in his prime, around 40 years old, according to airline insurance actuarial tables (IIRC).
Or you could look at it from human incentive perspective. How much money are
you willing to pay to prevent
your death from such an event?
Or look at it this way. The lifetime risk of being killed by lightning is 1 in 35,000 (according to the National Weather Service). The risk is on the same order as an Apophis impact. Would you spend all your money trying to reform the earth's atmosphere to avoid the possibility of lightning generation, or would you save your money and simply move indoors when a thunderstorm approaches?