[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I remember watching a show on the discovery channel that ran a computer simulation of various sized asteroids hiting the earth in different locations and the concensus was that a water strike was actually worse because of the super waves that it would create.

But one thing was certain, anything bigger then a greyhound bus hitting the earth would be potentially devestating.

As the years go on, the odds of an asteroid or other object not hitting us shrinks at an incredible rate.

The odds don't shrink at all, they stay exactly the same every year. They are indepedant events. Just because we didn't get hit by a once in a million year size rock this year doesn't mean our chances of getting hit by one next year are greater. Our chance of getting hit by a once in a million year size rock on any given year are exacty....1 in 1000000, regardless of how long ago the last one hit.