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Lotto Apophis

Late last year I started buying lottery tickets again.  An interesting email, my thought that it may as well be me rather than some other dude that wins, my desire to free myself from the need to work, and the fact that it is a cheap $2 or $5 dream are all reasons why I have taken up the habit. Chances are, sadly, that I'll never win. By the way....you won't either. The chances of winning the jackpot in the $2 6/49 lottery are 1 in 13,983,816.  The $5 Lotto Max has an even harder to grasp 1 in 28,633,528 chance of producing a jackpot winner.  Nevertheless on a regular basis someone in Canada wins and so all us ticket-buyers buy...and hope.  The odds are minuscule but we are often reminded in the newspapers that someone does win.  It is a probability that we wish for, hope occurs and will spend money on. On January 9 all seven billion of us on Earth participated in another lottery.  Call it the Apophis Lottery.  On that day a rock with a diameter of 325 metres flew by Ear