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Opening Arguments

Beating the odds

Feel lucky to be alive? You should:

Probability of your existing at all: 1 in 102,685,000

As a comparison, the number of atoms in the body of an average male (80kg, 175 lb) is 1027.  The number of atoms making up the earth is about 1050.  The number of atoms in the known universe is estimated at 1080.

So what's the probability of your existing?  It's the probability of 2 million people getting together

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