Most Estimates Of The Mortality Risk Posed By Asteroid Impacts Put It At About The Same Risk As Flying In A Commercial Airliner. However, You Have To Remember That This Is Like The Entire Human Race Riding The Plane - It Is One Of The Few Risks That Really Could Wipe Us All Out.

-Nathan Myhrvold

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Most Estimates Of The Mortality Risk Posed

Nathan Myhrvold

Most Estimates Of The Mortality Risk Posed By Asteroid Impacts Put It At About The Same Risk As Flying In A Commercial Airliner. However, You Have To Remember That This Is Like The Entire Human Race Riding The Plane - It Is One Of The Few Risks That Really Could Wipe Us All Out.

Topic

Impact

Race

Risk

Three Things About Water Affect Almost All Of Cooking. First Are The Hydrogen Bonds, Which Is Why It Has An Incredibly High Boiling Point. Another Is That It's A Polar Molecule, So That It Dissolves A Lot Of Things, And There Are Things That Won't Mix With It. And Then There's How Much Energy It Takes To Heat Water.

Water

Cooking

Energy