Richard de Crespigny

But the risk is still low because not many asteroids come down through your studio.

So we look at risk.

So when you look at risk in terms of mortality, there's a thing called a micromort.

And I wrote about this in the second book.

So

A micromort is one in a million chance of mortality, one in a million chance of dying.

When you get onto a horse, you have a one in a million chance of dying from that exposure.

One micromort will let you ride a motorbike about eight kilometers.

You use about 40,000 micromorts if you climb that Everest.

And one micromort will take you on 450 scenic railway things, you know, the roller coasters.

They are amazingly safe.

So one micromort will get a horse ride.

One micromort will take you 10,000 kilometers on a commercial aircraft, almost to America, right?

When you walk into a hospital, the chance of you being killed by an accident or an error, not because you are ill, the chance of you being killed by an accident in the medical system, 7,000 micromoles.

If you want to be scared, be scared of going to hospital.

I think everyone should have a person to be with them, to monitor them, an advocate, like one of your friends.

Have someone there with you.

Which is what they do now anyway.

The problem is in medicine is they don't ask enough questions.

They don't know enough about you, and they make decisions without knowing the facts, right?