Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
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Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
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Re: Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
#2The odds of this seem astronomically small.
Re: Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
#3The odds of this seem astronomically small.
Once in a blue moon, for sure.
Re: Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
#4The odds of this seem astronomically small.
No kidding. Actually, considering how mindblowingly huge but untouched the volume and area of our seas and seafloors are, "oceanically unlikely" is also a superlative I can get behind!
1.3 billion cubic km of water, the tallest mountain ranges and deepest canyons. Aside from occasional glimpses of the surface, it's forever out of sight and out of mind for nearly every person on the planet.
Re: Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
#5What seems amazing is that it isn’t covered in more sand and sediment. It would take such a small thickness of covering to hide it from view forever.
Re: Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
#6The odds of this seem astronomically small.
Counterintuitively, extremely unlikely events like this happen very often. The odds of a specific event like this are astronomically small, but there is an even more astronomically large number of different possible unlikely events. The sheer number of possible events is orders of magnitude greater than the odds of individual unlikely events, causing them to occur regularly.
The universe is a really weird place, where really weird stuff happens constantly.
Re: Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
#7The odds of this seem astronomically small.
It’s a million to one.
And those happen 9 times out of ten.
Re: Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
#8The odds of this seem astronomically small.
Counterintuitively, extremely unlikely events like this happen very often. The odds of a specific event like this are astronomically small, but there is an even more astronomically large number of different possible unlikely events. The sheer number of possible events is orders of magnitude greater than the odds of individual unlikely events, causing them to occur regularly. The universe is a really weird place, wher…
Imagine if you took the Everettian interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
Re: Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
#9What seems amazing is that it isn’t covered in more sand and sediment. It would take such a small thickness of covering to hide it from view forever.
It could be U shaped and not just a flat panel. Also, I assume the ceramic tiles have a very low coefficient of friction, so if it was stuck at any kind of small angle, the sediment might easily get carried off.
Re: Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
#10The odds of this seem astronomically small.
Counterintuitively, extremely unlikely events like this happen very often. The odds of a specific event like this are astronomically small, but there is an even more astronomically large number of different possible unlikely events. The sheer number of possible events is orders of magnitude greater than the odds of individual unlikely events, causing them to occur regularly. The universe is a really weird place, wher…