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Subject: What are the chances you are on the flood right now?

According to statistics, when considering one option out of many, the chances of that given chance is 0.

I asked the professor at my university about this to make sure, and she said yes, it is 0. Not 0.000001, not 0+ (which means very small, but still higher than 0) and she said it is not so. Statistics always shows it as 0.

And so, out of the infinite possibilities, you are reading this right now. Which means according to statistics, you are an impossibility. There is a 0% chance of this occuring.

How can that be so? It is also arguable that there is a 100% chance of you doing this right now. Everything in your life so far has lead you up to now, and you will continue to live the life set before you until you die.

Are either of these possible? Or are both of these thought processes fallacies?

  • 11.29.2012 4:55 PM PDT

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I'll tell you what- Theres a 100% chance that I'm here right now, and a 100% chance that I won't be in 30 seconds.

  • 11.29.2012 4:58 PM PDT

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  • 11.29.2012 4:59 PM PDT
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You're over-thinking it. And while I'm not a teacher of any sort, my logic would have to say your teacher is wrong. Any given event has some micro-probability of occurring no matter how illogical, hence the infinite monkey theorem.

  • 11.29.2012 5:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: Ankrow
You're over-thinking it. And while I'm not a teacher of any sort, my logic would have to say your teacher is wrong. Any given event has some micro-probability of occurring no matter how illogical, hence the infinite monkey theorem.

Ah yes, the infinite monkey theorem.

  • 11.29.2012 5:04 PM PDT
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There is a 50% chance I am on the Flood.

I'm either on, or I'm not.

  • 11.29.2012 5:06 PM PDT


Posted by: Dobatch
There is a 50% chance I am on the Flood.

I'm either on, or I'm not.

  • 11.29.2012 5:09 PM PDT

Es ist Zeit für einige Gefahr-pay

There is a 50/50 chance.

  • 11.29.2012 5:11 PM PDT

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OP: I'm on teh Fludz all the time. As are you now. Uhh.. we are the new statistic.

  • 11.29.2012 5:11 PM PDT

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1 in a billion.

  • 11.29.2012 5:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: slayer2142

Posted by: Dobatch
There is a 50% chance I am on the Flood.

I'm either on, or I'm not.

  • 11.29.2012 5:14 PM PDT


Posted by: Hi GunKoMa

Posted by: slayer2142

Posted by: Dobatch
There is a 50% chance I am on the Flood.

I'm either on, or I'm not.


So that would mean there is a 50% chance I am your great great great grandfather. Either I am or I'm not.

  • 11.29.2012 5:16 PM PDT


Posted by: Spilled Milk

Posted by: Hi GunKoMa

Posted by: slayer2142

Posted by: Dobatch
There is a 50% chance I am on the Flood.

I'm either on, or I'm not.


So that would mean there is a 50% chance I am your great great great grandfather. Either I am or I'm not.

MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER IS DEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDD.

  • 11.29.2012 5:17 PM PDT


Posted by: slayer2142

Posted by: Spilled Milk

Posted by: Hi GunKoMa

Posted by: slayer2142

Posted by: Dobatch
There is a 50% chance I am on the Flood.

I'm either on, or I'm not.


So that would mean there is a 50% chance I am your great great great grandfather. Either I am or I'm not.

MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER IS DEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDD.


There is a 50% chance I'm dead.

  • 11.29.2012 5:18 PM PDT
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I'm listeni- Oh wait I don't give a -blam!- what you have to say.

You're all wrong. The situations where 'chance' is a relevant term are eliminated by certainty. There is a 0 percent chance that I'm on the Flood and a 100 percent certainty. Therefore the only thing that can be impossible is the chance that I'm not here.

  • 11.29.2012 5:19 PM PDT