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That's true, but the chances of quite a lot of things happening over 100,000 years are fairly big.

Almost everything we do carries a small but non-zero risk of something which, if you stretched it over a hundred thousand years, would almost certainly be realized.

On the other hand, the average damage from a collision in space within 100,000 years is also pretty small.



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