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Re:The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos by seba_dos1 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @03:28AM (#43479695)
Yes, and if the probability of life turns out to be even more astonishingly small number, you may very well end up with six 10,000-sided dice :)

My intuition tells me it's not like that, but it's nothing but intuition.

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Re:The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos by grey-area on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @11:49AM (#43483521)
10,000 sided dice over 10^25 throws has a high probability of success for any given no.
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Re:The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos by seba_dos1 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @03:27PM (#43486029)
But you've got six throws there.

It's the proportion that matters, not absolute numbers.

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