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Re:Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blu... by mr_toad on Saturday October 04, 2025 @04:39PM (#45476507)
> But numbers can go arbitrarily low.

Which begs the question, why 1, and not zero? I can buy zero, or a very large number. But 1 exactly? Nature doesn’t do that.

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Re:Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blu... by tshaddox on Saturday October 04, 2025 @05:35PM (#45476928)
There’s not a huge difference between zero and one, other than whether someone’s around to comment about it on HN. And even a second wouldn’t really tell us more about the probabilities.
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Re:Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blu... by soVeryTired on Saturday October 04, 2025 @04:55PM (#45476623)
Siméon Denis Poisson would like a word with you.

But in seriousness, I agree.

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