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You don't have to learn to be lucky; billions of years of evolution have bred lucky right into you.
by jimfl 17y ago
You don't have to learn to be lucky; billions of years of evolution have bred lucky right into you.
- emarcotte 17y agoTeela Brown? So lucky that she got to go see and save the Ringworld as her first and last mission.
- watmough 17y agoActually 'unlucky' if I remember correctly. The 'lucky' ones were unreachable. Didn't Teela end up as the protector?
- lief79 17y agoBased on the first book, lucky is probably right. She needed the experience of danger in order to broaden her horizons and to grow as a person. Clearly, I haven't read enough of the series to comment on the last statement .... and they could easily alter the perception of the events in the first book.
- sp332 17y ago"On one hand, every single one of my ancestors going back billions of years has managed to figure it out. On the other hand, that's the mother of all sampling biases." -- http://xkcd.com/674/ http://xkcd.com/674/ (hover text)