I just came across this bit about asteroid Apophis and the chances of it impacting earth . "NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid known as Apophis and now say it has only a very slim chance of banging into Earth.. The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields, and updated computational techniques and newly available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036 for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a million, NASA stated." So here's the bit that rubs me wrong: "four-in-a million". Why not say "one-in-250,000". If the authors are really stuck on the whole "four-in" thing then they should have said four-in-180,000 to start with. I really find inconsistencies like this baffling, I wish I knew the author and could understand what they hoped to gain by reporting the number in this way.
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by the way - Orange Box, TF2. Its like the old days all over again.
I'm also very curious about the OpenSource FPS AlienArena.
About a year ago I fired up Q3 and went online to play, geez my skills needed work...I got complete owned. But I'll get it back. WoW isn't holding my attention like it used to and FPS games are easier to walk away from while playing.