Well, if it does hit you, it will probably be going faster than the speed of sound so you won't have time to realize what happened. Will there be a gps coordinate updated somewhere to find out of this chunk of metal is going to take down a skyscraper? How fast is it going to be moving?
I suppose a satellite travelling at a very shallow angle would increase chances. Also, stuff like being able to eliminate locations such as antartica and the pacific, etc, reduces the amount of space that can be hit...
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 35.8 ms ] thread"The odds of it hitting someone anywhere on the planet are 1 in 3,200. "
Perhaps you are confusing "chances of any person getting hit" with "chances of you getting hit", which is not what the title says.
51,006,560,000,000 square meters landmass on earth.
about 6 billion humans. So they take up about
6,000,000,000 square meters.
or .00118 percent of the earth. So roughly a 1 in 100000 chance of a single piece hitting a person. I'm too drunk to know if this is nonsense.
All of your comments are [dead] and you are probably unaware of it. There is a weird heuristic here that does that occasionally to non-trolls.