<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">If you continue to drive that road, eventually good chance you will sacrifice a third windshield. Coincidental indeed, but not so astonishing. Suggest slowing and honking as you approach Bend in the Road vulture restaurant henceforth. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">Back to calling upon your team to hurl a winning pass sir. That was impressive.<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">spike</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">Not bad, not bad at all - good job. But the chances of getting hit in the rear are greatly elevated when I see vultures as likely I will slam on the brakes. Impressive implies accomplishment, so no, it's not that. Extremely coincidental, yes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"> bill w</span></p></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 12:49 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@<wbr>lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 03, 2016 9:59 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.<wbr>org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] for fun - statistical improbabilities<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black"> I said "What we need right now is a 95 yard touchdown pass."</span> <span style="color:black">It happened on the next play. The whole end zone looked at me, and later in the game called to me to call for another one</span>…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">He’s GOD! they shouted in unison, as they fell before him in humble adoration. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Alternative: you have the FORCE BillW. You are the droid we are looking for. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Have you had any type of highly improbable event happen to you where you were involved in some way, not just a spectator? (Yeah, kinda Reader's Digest kind of thing.)</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If this doesn’t generate some welcome fun lighthearted discussion, I don’t know what will.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">One more: as my wife and I were driving along a back road I saw a group of vultures up ahead and slowed down as the group flew off to the right. Only one bird flew left but that was enough to bust my windshield, sending glass all the way to the back window</span>…<span style="color:black">Not improbable? One year later in another car my wife was driving along the same road with me and a vulture hit her windshield in the same place</span>…<span style="color:black">bill w</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Turn in the road, driver and beast have a difficult time seeing each other, driver smites and slays beast with Detroit, vultures come in for lunch regularly in that spot. Notice how vultures feed: they surround their lunch, give each other space if possible. They get startled by suddenly approaching growling thing which by their instinct matches a hungry lion, they fly away, but vultures and big cumbersome things and require some runway with a relatively low climb rate and low turning ability. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Result: that spot is a frequent meeting place between Detroits and the hapless local fauna, the feathered scavengers’ grow big and strong devouring slain beasts at that spot. Then, any time a Detroit comes suddenly into view, the vultures fly away from their meal, at least one of which needs to come in your general direction to have sufficient clear runway, Detroit smites scavenger, broken windshield, revolting vulture guts spewed upon driver and passenger. If you continue to drive that road, eventually good chance you will sacrifice a third windshield. Coincidental indeed, but not so astonishing. Suggest slowing and honking as you approach Bend in the Road vulture restaurant henceforth. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Back to calling upon your team to hurl a winning pass sir. That was impressive.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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