Archive for the ‘Probability’ Category

MOSCOW – Russia’s space agency chief said Wednesday a spacecraft may be dispatched to knock a large asteroid off course and reduce the chances of earth impact, even though U.S. scientists say such a scenario is unlikely. The Russians are not taken any changes. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/12/30/russia-send-spacecraft-asteroid/

Influenza is a virus – a pack of protein and DNA that lacks the capacity to self-reproduce. So it infects a cell, hijacks the inner machinery and uses it to reproduce. The virus reproduces until there are so many copies that the cell bursts and the virus spills out, spreading to other healthy cells.

I heard recently one of my constituents decision to shave his head if Obama wins, due to the fact that the bet was made in favor of McCain. You figured the odds of probability, and how racist we have become, by noticing early prediction of the outcome of the elections, compared with the actual numbers [...]