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cubefox
on July 15, 2023
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Could an industrial civilization have predated hum...
Dinosaur fossils also didn't have a guarantee of being found. It's all in the probability.
K0balt
on July 16, 2023
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If you flip a fair coin 1000 times I guarantee it comes up heads at least once. If you set a cup on a table I guarantee it won’t pass through the table, even though both the glass and the table are mostly empty space.
Those things also are all in the probability.
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