if a source makes a sells an undetermined amount of ticket, and another undetermined amount of people buy these tickets
what re the odds of winning?
what about if some buy a large amount, relative to the others, what are his odds?
what if all the tickets are sold
the odds?
what about if they are not sold?
the odds?
what are the odds of people with consecutive birthdates,and consecutive heights (in full inches) buying all of the grand prize, 1st prize and 2nd prize tickets?
Is it possible to make odds?
how is that different than trying to calculate the odds of life when the full mass of the universe is not known?
nor the energy used to combine that mass?
nor the full elemental composition of the universe?
or if the mass was all together at the 'beginning'?
Is it not a bit arrogant to think that anyone, here, from our severely limited vantagepoint, could proclaim the odds of life and evolution?
and what about the odds or atomic combinations coming alive? how do you begin?
2006-07-18
21:17:16
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athorgarak
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