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Fri, 2008-09-05 12:31.
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The probability of being dealt a royal flush in a poker hand is around 10-7. You have a 10-10 chance of dying on any given 5 mile bus trip. Your next Powerball lotto ticket has about a 10-16 chance of winning.
And there's a 10-29 chance that the researchers at CERN will turn on the Large Hadron Collider and destroy the universe next week.
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Even with such a bad probability, people still play the lottery, and all they are risking is a couple of bucks.
Sure the probability of destroying the universe is much smaller, but the risk is a little larger than a couple of bucks.
Not that I don't think that they should turn the thing on... I'm just saying.
Jesus is coming! (look busy)