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Old 30-December-2007, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Gillianren View Post
I don't know what the odds are, but I imagine the odds of being like that one forest ranger who was struck by lightning like seventeen times are higher.
Yes, much higher. You'd have to have another significant asteroid cross its path (which we don't have any evidence for, and would be insanely unlikely anyway) and it would then have to change the path in a way that mattered.
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