What is the most improbable event that you can imagine? Something so unlikely to happen that the odds are a multitude of multitude of billions to 1? I think I have the answer and its truly massive!
All the animals and insects conspire to gang up on us humans and kick our asses. I don't know, you seem to have the answer. So what is it ?
I think the most improbable event is that we will figure out the question which leads to the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything.
My sister turns into a giant fruit bat and then builds a castle out of marshmellow. Then Barack Obama comes to visit and eats the whole thing, while an orchestra plays through the entire score of Wagner's Ring cycle. Then the Earth explodes and everybody dies except me because I happen to be rescued at the last minute by a green pixie named Horace.
Bugger. I was going to suggest us figuring out the meaning of the universe only to have it disappear instantly and be replaced by something even more unfathomable. But I've got to hand it to you I'm afraid.
Right now from where i'm thinking? World Peace. We are here, like we are here on sciforums. To fuck with each other.
Woohoo! let the fucking commence! who's getting paired with draq? It's his first time so we need someone gentle.
What if one doesn't ascribe to a Bayesian view of probability? Then your question is meaningless Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!.
All the particles in the universe simultaneously move parallel to the same vector (assuming we can agree on a frame of reference).
'Tater Baby buys CSX and changes the name back to Conrail, then rebuilds "Anzio Annie" to fire antimatter rounds... ...gives me the whole system as a birthday present - along with a bag of "El Splundge-O-Fume", if you know what I mean... ...then departs, warbling - Don't blow it, Twinkle-Balls, which of course, I understand wholeheartedly... ...and it rains, and rains, and rains... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Shuffle a standard deck of 52 cards until they are randomized. Whatever order of cards you get, the odds of that particular combination of cards appearing is 1 in 52!, which is about 1 in 8*10^67, or one in eighty million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion. If that's not unlikely enough for you, just shuffle two decks together, which gets the odds up to 1 in 10^166.
