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Yeah but most ordinary people don’t travel hundreds of miles into the middle of a desert to a classified military installation to “flash mob.”
by ethanbond 6y ago
Yeah but most ordinary people don’t travel hundreds of miles into the middle of a desert to a classified military installation to “flash mob.”
- aaron-santos 6y agoA statement on the chance that an ordinary person traveled to Area 51 is in no way a statement on the chance that a person who traveled to Area 51 is ordinary. The two are wholly unrelated.
- anonymfus 6y agoChances that you just formulated are related by Bayes's theorem.
- Apocryphon 6y agoPeople gather in the desert all the time. Burning Man, Coachella, EDC. The people who gathered at Area 51 made their own gathering.
- ethanbond 6y agoYes, their own gathering around raiding a military installation. Pretty clear this is going nowhere. Have a good weekend!
- Apocryphon 6y agoThe joke was about raiding the place because Area 51 is, in popular consciousness, a securely guarded place with unfathomable secrets inside, and thus inaccessible unless a very very large number of people attempted to storm the place with bullet-defying Naruto running. Where do you get that mass of people? Why the internet of course, which is also a terrible place to organize an invasion, which makes it all that more ironic. It should also be noted that at the gathering no violence broke out, because everyone there was for fun. There wasn't even an instance of someone present mentally unstable or too ideologically fanatic actually trying to make a run for it. By all accounts the partiers and the security forces got along amiably. It was indeed a positive, if eccentric, social event. This debate is going nowhere because it requires the participants to have a working grasp of both pop culture and humor.