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April 15, 2005

Order of Magnitude Quiz: Death by moose

Fill in the blanks with answers within an order of magnitude and win the satisfaction of having guessed right:

One in ___ people who hit a moose are killed, compared with one in ___ who hit a deer..."

USAToday, April 15, 2005, "Moose brake for no one..." by Trudy Tynan

Select between the X's to see the answer:
X     Deer: 1 in 75 .... Moose: 1 in 5,000     X

[NOTE: Be sure to reverse the answers once you've revealed them because I, um, totally screwed this up. Sorry.]

Posted by D. Weinberger at April 15, 2005 02:41 PM


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Joho the Blog... home of the counter-intuitive factoid. "I'll take door number 3, Monty... and the Moose I rode in on."

Posted by: fp | April 15, 2005 03:08 PM


When I lived in Alaska for a summer that was some serious shit. They kept a count of how many people had been killed by moose.

Have you ever seen a moose? THEY ARE HUGE! It would be like hitting a draft horse with horns.

The best thing about Alaska? They take the moose carcass and redistribute the meat to poor people who sign up for the Moose Kill list.

Heh.

Posted by: Pat Rock | April 15, 2005 03:27 PM


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I would have imagined that there would be far more moose fatalities. I mean, moose are higher and bigger; if you hit a moose, all you do is take out its legs, which still leaves the bulk of the 1,500 pound animal intact and headed straight towards the passenger compartment, whereas deer are smaller and lower and would get their impact absorbed by the engine compartment.

Another perfect theory ruined by inconvient facts.

Posted by: Frankenstein | April 15, 2005 04:37 PM


Lot of 4x4s in Alaska which typically sit higher. So it would strike the moose more center of mass. Or at least thats my story and I'm sticking with it.

Posted by: Pat Rock | April 15, 2005 05:12 PM


Is this your sly way of joining the Integrity Authenticity Transparency bloggers in their war against such pseudo blogs as the talking moose of horrid Moosetopia blog?

If so, you are really funny and wise.

If not, why not?

Posted by: steven streight aka vaspers the grate | April 15, 2005 05:55 PM


Look, I screwed this up. I posted it in a hurry and then ran for a taxi to a plane. I realized my errorr as I was in the terminal. Somehow, the America West for-pay wifi let me pick up email and do IM but not browse, so I couldn't fix it.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I should never be left alone with a fact again.

Posted by: David Weinberger | April 16, 2005 12:00 AM


You screwed up by hitting the wrong mammal?

Of course not, unless you were trying to bring it to an end.

The animal, that is.

Posted by: Ross Mayfield | April 16, 2005 01:14 AM


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