What is the most unlikely event to have taken place?

atomicloonybin aka ALB said:
The sun moon thing is one of the things that makes me think that just maybe we do live in a simulation. The moon is gradually moving away from us - once it would have been huge in the sky and covered the entire sun; one day it won't be big enough to cover the sun. And we happen to be alive at the precise moment it fits exactly. Hmmm.
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Somebody had to. It's just us. Counter intuitively, Unlikely/improbable things happen all the time.
 
festa5 said:
Every time you shuffle a deck of playing cards the order of those cards is extremely unlikely to have occurred.

The odds of shuffling a standard 52-card deck in the same order twice is one in 80 unvigintillion.
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Apparently that's ...
1 in 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000
 
I was interviewed for a job in Newcastle, then 4 months later became the line manager of the guy who interviewed me. He wasn't happy, but there again he was useless, so recommended him for early retirement, which he took.

#UTB
 
The moment that created the imagine on the Turin Shroud, still totally unexplainable, nothing in history before or since is comparable, I'm not a religious person but the Shroud totally dumbfounds and fascinates me.

I've been fortunate enough to have seen the Shroud in person and also have had a private audience with a nun, who is one of the few people who has had regular close up access to the Shroud, which gave me an insight to the depth of faith that some people possess.

The more I look into it the more inexplicable it becomes, so many contradictory factors and scientific advancements that create more questions and queries.
 
A bit personal, but having my ribcage opened with an electric saw, my heart stopped for a few hours, my lungs deflated, and a machine keeping me alive while about 6 people worked in various capacities around the operating table without inadvertently pulling any of the leads or tubes out (or maybe they did, how would I know?), one of them stitching harvested blood vessels onto my heart with teeny-tiny stitches still blows my mind.

If this is all a simulation, the level of minute detail in it is astounding.. Either way, modern medicine is a miracle.
 
Littlejimmy said:
If this is all a simulation, the level of minute detail in it is astounding.
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If you were to subscribe to the simulation theory, technically they didn't have to render all that detail and complexity, just concoct the right story for the NPC doctors to tell you when you woke up ;)
 
m3t4tr0n said:
If you were to subscribe to the simulation theory, technically they didn't have to render all that detail and complexity, just concoct the right story for the NPC doctors to tell you when you woke up ;)
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Hmm, interesting, but what the scars on my chest, arm and leg? The tubes and leads that had to be removed over the following few days?
 
The rarest of rare a geordie showing good grace and humility when talking about football, yet to see it mind
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I have been reading The Guardian and they asked the above question with readers replying. One guy stated the fact that the Earth, the moon and the sun are positioned in such a way that the moon and sun appear to be identical in size from the surface of the Earth during a total eclipse.

So what is your most unlikely event to have taken place?

I am sure posters will come up with events that have taken place that are better than mine but this means a lot to me.

I still pinch myself when I think of the players I have seen in a Boro shirt and the number of cup finals I've seen us play in (if only we could have won one or two more).

In 1977 I went to see Man Utd v Liverpool at Wembley and was stood in the Man Utd end, I was 14 at the time. Liverpool had beaten the Boro that year in the quarter-finals and I wanted Man U to win (Liverpool dominated everything at the time). I remember Tommy Docherty and Bob Paisley leading the teams out on a hot sunny day and thinking I would die a happy man if I could just watch the Boro walk out at Wembley, I mean, is it too much to ask?

Fast forward to 1990 and the Zenith Data Cup Final and there I was watching Colin Todd lead us out at Wembley but although I had watched the Boro at Wembley, I felt it didn't count as a major trophy.

I finally got my prayers answered during the Robson era and my eldest son honestly thought, like many of the Premier League Babies that the Boro played at Wembley regularly. Steve McClaren delivered our first trophy (at Cardiff) and we all got to watch Southgate lift the first trophy Boro has ever won. What a day, what a memory but this isn't my unlikely event though.

My unlikely event is watching us play in a major European Cup Final. As a child in the 60's and 70's, I had my wall covered in Boro programmes, pictures of John Hickton, Eric McMordie and all the top Boro players of the time. I dreamt about watching the Boro playing at Wembley but Europe never crossed my mind, that was for the top teams like Liverpool, Man U, Spurs, Celtic, etc. and wasn't something the Boro would ever grace. Watching us play at Eindhoven is the pinnacle of my Boro supporting life and something I thought I would never see.

So what is your most unlikely event to have taken place?
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Despite that high, walking away from the Phillips Stadium in Eindhoven after the game, the realisation that we’ll never be in that position ever again was quite depressing.
 
Humpty said:
Despite that high, walking away from the Phillips Stadium in Eindhoven after the game, the realisation that we’ll never be in that position ever again was quite depressing.
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Were you depressed on your wedding night too or already looking forward to a divorce? :ROFLMAO:
 
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