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WCDT: 2236-40 (23-27 July 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Is it cold in here?:
Emily's mind works oddly enough that I can imagine her not knowing the word "anime" or temporarily forgetting it, and still knowing who Nano is. ("Oh, so that's what they call it!")
She seems too ingenuous to have said it ironically.
Maybe she didn't recognize the word when it was pronounced correctly? Yeah, I'm reaching here.
Akima:
--- Quote from: ihaveavoice on 25 Jul 2012, 01:10 ---Also, I love that Emily has frizz from the humidity.
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Claire and Gabby. Emily is East Asian; generally we don't do frizzy unless we have a very unfortunate encounter with a hairdresser.
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 25 Jul 2012, 08:05 ---The probability of being hit on your birthday is 1/365.24 the probability of being hit in a year. The same as the probability of being hit on the fourth of July, or last Tuesday, or tomorrow.
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And, assuming random distribution of meteors, the probability of being hit on any of all the days in a year that are not your birthday is 364.24/365.24 of the probability of being hit in a year. This padawan hesitates to point this out to a jedi master. I think this is essentially a "two dice" problem, where you roll a 365-sided die with one face marked with a single dot, together with a billion*-sided die with n faces marked in the same way, and really hope you don't roll snake-eyes.
*I don't actually know the probability of being struck by a meteor. Edit: Adjusted for Akronnick's post below.
Method of Madness:
NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS!
akronnick:
Odds of dying by asteroid impact: 1 in 700,000
--- Quote from: Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer ---The overall risk of dying from an impact in your lifetime is 1 in 700,000. Somewhat less than being killed by a fireworks accident, but still more probable than being killed on an amusement park ride or by an act of terrorism.
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Tova:
There's a reason they call it the WCOAT.
... oh, they don't call it that? They should. It's pronounceable, and everything. Sort of.
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