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Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by egeozcan on Monday January 08, 2024 @07:16AM (#38910902)
Of course it's a very small step to make babies amounting to 3 times the current population of Switzerland (so assuming roughly a 50/50 female/male divide, everyone needs to make 6 babies on average, in the same year so they will still all be babies when the last one is born? that's probably impossible for the females but we are already way into the science-fiction category) and put them all in a committee.

The more I think about this, the funnier and more complicated this gets.

Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by column on Monday January 08, 2024 @08:40AM (#38911746)
What do you mean, "that's *probably* impossible" to make 6 babies from the same mother in a single year? Takes about 9 months to output a human, you know?
Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by CapitalistCartr on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:04AM (#38912043)
Ha! Nine women can have that baby in one month; management says so.
Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by jrm415 on Monday January 08, 2024 @10:18AM (#38913153)
It’s not impossible to have sextuplets.

It’s probably impossible for a population to average that rate though.

Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by kgwgk on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:35AM (#38912477)
> Takes about 9 months to output a human, you know?

It can also be done months faster getting multiple humans though.

Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by atq2119 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @12:11AM (#38922586)
Twins and larger multiples are a thing...
Re:What has a 1 in a million chance? by egeozcan on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:52AM (#38938353)
> Takes about 9 months to output a human

Takes about 9 months to output N humans where N approaches to 1 on large averages as even twin births are like 1.2 percent.

Also many females cannot be pregnant again for a while after giving birth, even if we had sped up the pregnancy.

To average 6 babies, we need something like giving birth to triplets every 5 months in average, which improbable even if we had the technology, will and the economics that could support this.

But you know, "improbable" is such a funny word, especially out of context :)