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Old 07-17-2019 | 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
It’s been 66 million years since the Yucatán asteroid exterminated the dinosaurs. Does that mean we are overdue?
Yes, we are overdue for another plague of dinosaurs.

If you flip a fair coin three times and it turns up heads each time (a 0.125 probability), does that mean the NEXT flip is more or less likely to be heads?
More likely, because you are inadvertently flipping the fair coin in an unfair manner.
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