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Originally Posted by Warren Platts
I've seen quotes that there is a 1 in 50,000,000 chance that SOMETHING REALLY BAD will be produced by the LHC. These are better odds than winning the Powerball (1 in 179,000,000). Yet, people win Powerball every few days.
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I've seen quotes that we are 100% doomed.
So; what is that chance based on (or who said it)? And; what exactly is "something really bad". I assume it means mass destruction, but I have seen many sweeping doom comments include some mundane easily correctable comments to inflate the number.
To use the analogy of the lottery, the odds of winning of 1 in 3 includes mostly free tickets.
Even if I can accept those chances as a valid chance of doom, I still don't see the powerball analogy to fit very well.
Yes there are winners every day, but there are also tens or hundreds of million players every day. How many LHC's are there?