CNN: Mega Millions jackpot jumps, could reach $1 billion - http://www.cnn.com/2013...
Dec 16, 2013
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"The Mega Millions jackpot is juicy, but thanks to new, longer odds, it's entirely possible the payout could reach $1 billion by Christmas." ... however... "you have a much, much better chance of being killed by an asteroid, and while those are long odds, they're even longer than they were in early October."
- Louis Gray
I question their statement though. Somebody always wins the lottery, and I haven't heard of any deaths by asteroid lately.
- Louis Gray
Plus, it's easy to double my odds of winning. (buy another ticket) Much harder to double my odds of being hit by the asteroid.
- Brian Johns
So by buying 5 tickets I could cut my odds down to to 1 in 52,000,000 which is a huge edge over the people who only bought 1 ticket. And if I win the lottery I won't really care about my EV and whether it took $1 or $2 or $5 to win it.
- Brian Johns
Maybe by "asteroid" they meant "meteorite".
- dgw