Probability=0.00000001%

this is probably one of the smartest comments on metacafe. good job

Very Nice!

the last tornado one is more like 0.000000000000000 0000000000000000000 00000000000001% chance of happening

way of earning respect on metacafe ; )

You're stupid! The probability of events like these aren't based on how many people there are on the planet, but rather based on how often the initial incident occurs. For the car tire example it would be a one in a million chance that the tire would reattach itself for everytime a tire falls off a car, which is infinitely different than your asinine assertion that the tire would reattach itself for every one million people on Earth. Retard.

P.S. Inprobable is not a word, but improbable is.

P.P.S. Yes, it is EXTREMELY improbable that a house will magically fly back together. Retard.

FIVE!!!!!!

go to youtube and search this, first link
Real TV - Tire comes off the car, then reattaches itself

thank you very much

Yup !!! you're so right !!

FIVE TO THIS.
STOOPID w. DOUBLE O's TO THE RETARD TRYING TO INSERT MATHMATICAL CONCEPTS TO EXPLAIN SOME SCIFI HUMOURUS COMMERCIAL. YEAH, READ THIS WORD CLEARLY, C-O-M-M-E-R-C-I-A-L. NOT -IM SMART LIKE A RETARD-

when a scientist says 1 in a million he/she is taking all aspects of chance into account..time, location etc. not just 1 in a million people

Well I doubt a 'scientist' would give a nice round number like 1 in a million there bucky

always one whos got to ruin i n nor agree...toss pot

When a scientist is saying "1 in a million" he/she is oversimplifying for the public. And also implying, usually, that it's impossible to take into consideration all aspects to give an accurate probability factor.

Ironically, a probability that large given as a precise round number is the first sign that it isn't an actual mathematical prediction.

All these jackasses are commending the newly appointed leader of retards on his retarded assertion.

There is nothing smart about that guy's comment. Like you said, the odds are given for one particular event. Plus "one chance in a million" is used more as a saying than an actual scientific probability.

Scientist are aware that you can NOT take ALL aspects/factors into account. IF you indeed could take ALL factors into account you would be able to predict something to happen with a probability of 100% or 0%. Now in this world there yet no man or machine that can do this.
Stop calling people stupid, they are not, and neither are you.

Look up the "Uncertainty principle" probability plays its roll in quantum physics, basically when you get really small there are actual accuratenesses that arn't absolute, and cannot be calculated no matter how much information you get. This is actually the premise of quantum physics. It gets really freaky actually, in some cases a partical can exist in more then one place at once. No one really understands quantum physics, we just go along with the equations and experiments.

Even with the theory of large numbers in play... If I buy bangcock insurance my house will not rebuild its self and my tire wont refasten ot my car...

omg what a comment

you're mixing up absolute and relative numbers. One in a million is just as common or uncommon as 6000 in 6 billion. And besides that: it's only says something about the chance it happens to you IF it happens, not about the chance THAT it happens...

That until yet I haven't heard of a story of a tornado spinned and tore a broken down house into pieces and then everything fell into place and built a newer and better looking house :

I'd love to see that on the news

hiiiiigh fiiiiiveee, i like!

Seriousley, just shut up and enjoy the commercial. :P

LOL yeah

High Five!

Kudos

crocodile hunter died by stingray... RIP

its just a commercial

As of today, the world population is actually about 6.71 billion. (It will reach 7 billion on or about April 10, 2010.) That makes the odds ever better and what is referred to as 'theory of large numbers' is actually the probability theory. I've never heard of a tornado reconstructing a house after demolishing it but then, as you point out, with numbers this great, anything is possible.

Very Great Comment, I'd like to high five you back for that one!

with computer imaging

tenjho tenge ...

Dude that makes so much sense! Especially in a foreign language. Your kind aren't wanted here.

are you saying
???

So you're saying the Cubs really CAN win the world series and that the chick from I Dream of Jennie really CAN appear in my bed if I think about it really, really, really hard? God, I hope so :-)

No chance about the girl, I dreamt about her before you.

I hate you

in Oklahoma. I have seen hundreds of tornado's and have NEVER been hit by even 1 of them. So, not 100%

and when it does, it's going to be bad - and the longer the delay, the worse it's going to get.

these could never happen anywhere! the point of the commercial is to assure you no matter what happens! just enjoy it...dont say anything!

duh!

Perhaps in their country it's happening most of the time that's why cameras are there to cath it. To see is to believe, right? You saw it!!!!!

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