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[bageled]

Real scary is cancer statistics.

Chances of dying from any invasive cancer
Men, 1 in 4
Women, 1 in 5

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerBasics/lifetime-probability-of-developing-or-dying-from-cancer

[DonutKing]

I've actually read up a bit on cancer stats a while ago.
Firstly you've got to develop cancer before you die from it, so for men the odds of that are 1 in 2 for men, 1 in 3 for women. when you extrapolate that out its more like 1 in 8 men will die from cancer, and 1 in 15 women.

Those odds are averaged out over your lifetime, its only when you reach 70-80 years of age that the chance of developing cancer reaches 1 in 2 people or greater, which brings the average down.

In western society you are just as likely to die from a car accident, heart disease or diabetes as you are from cancer. For all we know about cancer there seems little we can do about it anyway. Some of the healthiest people I know have been struck down by it while some people with terrible habits seems to charge along without problems.

The fact is you gotta die of something no matter how healthy you are so there's no point staying up at night worrying about it.
As far as dying from an asteroid impact goes, I think the odds of getting cancer are greater than that Most asteroids are small enough to burn up in the atmosphere, that's where you get shooting stars from. The ones that make it to the surface do cause some  devastation but not usually enough to wipe out life on the planet. Here's a really old one http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0310_050310_meteorcrater.html this 1.2km crater was theorized to be caused by something 50m in diamater. Odds are that it was significantly larger before it entered the atmosphere.

So the odds of dying from an asteroid impact are pretty low. The cool thing about this however it is really makes you think about earth's place in the universe. We think we're all high and mighty but in reality we are but one small planet in one small system, there's millions more out there. The people who say that there is no such thing as extraterrestrial life don't understand what they are talking about, with the sheer number of planets in the universe its almost inconceivable that there wouldn't be life on some of them.

[KARNAGE]

my step dad has cancer, then I foudn out soem other guys dad died of cancer. I also heard whatshisface...michael douglas had it, and some other actor. this shit gets around

[Number One]

you guys want scary............strains of this is living on your skin, its only waiting for your immune system to fail..... fuck asteroids.......this shit is EVERYWHERE............and i see it daily.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methicillin-resistant_Staphylococcus_aureus

[SolidSmiddi]

From 1980 - 2010.

Its more about how many have been identified within that time-frame than how many are actually there.
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[bageled]

lol at Anglo, there is something similar in our digestive system as well. From memory is serves some purpose in there, but isn't a part of us, it is like a microscopic sqautter.
I remember at chef school doing petrie dishes, I wiped a ear bud on my cheek, and put it onto the petire dish, a week later the staf was so virulent it wasn't safe to open.
Reminds me of a myth buster episode they did looking for micro organisms, the "dirtiest" thing they found was the kitchen sponge, the toilet seat was angelic in comparison.

[Number One]

there is even scarier stuff i have heard about, but even i dont know enough to talk about that stuff....