Place your bets ladies and gentleman!

Dan Neely

Getting numbers like that isn't hard. A first approximation is just to look at the percentages of sea, land, and populated land between +/-42 (44?) degrees latitude - the parts of the Earth that the boosters orbit takes it over, a refined value would take into account that the orbits shape means it spends more time over the areas near the N/S limits of it's ground track and weight the areas based on that. Once it gets to within a day or two of re-entry you could refine even more by factoring in exactly what's under each of its orbital passes instead of aggregate around the world numbers. At that point the values would be adjusting themselves at ever increasing rates as the maximum number of possible orbits goes down.

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Wrong question for my current mood. Now if you ask me where* I'd like it to fall . . . * read that "on whom"

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

It is very nice, but the probability of event is depends on the possible outcomes... And there are only two of them - it will hit someone or will not... That makes it a 50-50... Which is horrible...

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Dan Neely

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

It is very nice, but the probability of event is depends on the possible outcomes... And there are only two of them - it will hit someone or will not... That makes it a 50-50... Which is horrible...

It's only "50-50" in the same sense that a coin can land on a flat side or the curved edge when flipped. <

:rolleyes:

obermd

I'm hoping on their launch facilities so they think twice about being idiots again. This isn't the first time China has pulled this crap.

SeanChupas

There is a 100% chance it will land wherever it does, and a 0% chance anywhere else.

Daniel Pfeffer

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dandy72

It's not "interactive" if I don't get to control where to send it... :rolleyes:

Leo56

From the same people who brought the world....Wuhan Virus! (With due apologies - of course - to the W.H.O).... ;P

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I'm hoping it lands on my neighbor's house. No, don't ask.

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Fabio Franco

OriginalGriff wrote:

The odds are with me here. :-D

Well, there is 70% chance that it is not in the pacific ocean, so I beg to differ :laugh:

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OriginalGriff

Yes, but ... "not the Pacific" isn't a specific place at all! :laugh:

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If we're being picky about numbers here, why does the original question involve multiple ladies but only one gentleman? :-)

Fabio Franco

Well, I don't see in the rules how specific it should be, so I do bet in not pacific hahaha. Actually I think I will bet planet Earth

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George Freeman

If you have a bag with 999 blue balls and 1 red ball and you reach in to pick one randomly, there are only two outcomes but the odds are definitely not 50 - 50 of getting a blue or red ball.

BDieser

Using the last year and a half as an indicator, I'm going with it will land in the least desirable place.

Rusty Bullet

I am betting on the East Coast of the US. Nothing like an international incident to spice up the weekend!

Middle Manager

I'm gonna go with about 100km south-southeast of Madagascar, in the water. I have a smudge on my monitor at that exact location when viewing the satellite tracker and I can't seem to wipe it off, so it must be a sign. Of course if I scroll the web page up or down my prediction would change... but I haven't scroll yet so I'm sticking with my first prediction instead of, say, the Saudi Arabian desert.

Pete Kelley

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