Your Chances of Dying

Chance of dying in globally catastrophic impact is ~ 1 in 500,000 per year.
- Same as commercial aircraft accident
- Catastrophic impacts RARER, but kill more people
- Technically, your chance of dying is ~ 1 in 20,000 over your lifetime.
Would we know it was coming? Not likely!
- We believe there are several thousand asteroids capable of causing catastrophic impacts, but have catalogued only a hundred or so.

Chance of dying in globally catastrophic impact is ~ 1 in 500,000 per year.