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"Not in a million years"–something that might happen once in a million years for an individual–happens over 8000 times per year for people on earth. Many of the
by nabla9 3y ago
"Not in a million years"–something that might happen once in a million years for an individual–happens over 8000 times per year for people on earth. Many of them have smartphones with camera to record the event. That's why we have an actual video where quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
- ithkuil 3y agoMy chance of dying because of a dinosaur-estinction-event-class asteroid hit is one in a 65 million years, thus every two and a half days on average a random person on earth dies being hit by an asteroid of that size.
- davefol 3y agoThis implies that your death and all others are not correlated. I’d argue that if an asteroid hits the death correlation is almost 1.
- nonameiguess 3y agoThis is quite a good point. People often fail to make the distinction between something that happens once every million years to all individual organisms separately versus something that happens once ever million years to the planet itself. Our language is usually ambiguous about this.
- supernewton 3y agoSimilarly, Vatican City has slightly less than 6 popes per square mile.
- feintruled 3y agoHad to search for that video, I love things like this. I was not disappointed, so thanks for that. Really tickled me. Doesn't displace my favourite though: https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/6922546.bull-breaks-up-a-china-shop/ https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/6922546.bull-br...