[Junior]

This one's definitely going to be posted the next time someone claims "the odds are astronomical."

[general_re]

Oh, yeah. Nice catch...

[Neanderthal]

This is equivalent to rolling 16 consecutive "7's" at the craps table.

[Southack]

Naw, the odds are easy when the state owes your crime buddies a payoff (nice Italian/Latino name, too)...

[ThinkPlease]

Ping.

[VadeRetro]

Gallina's coup is proof that Mr. Lotto Man, not random chance, actually determines the outcome of the games. Mr. Lotto Man is a supernatural being who makes Santa Claus look like a piker. He gives vast fortunes to the particularly deserving, all but ignoring everybody else. People who think random chance has anything to do with the outcomes here are simply clueless. Gallina probably made an extra-good sacrifice to Mr. Lotto Man to be so spectacularly rewarded.

I have a cat superbly marbeled with fat whose cooking aromas would no doubt please Mr. Lotto Man no end. The experiment seems worth a try.

[PatrickHenry]

Tornado in a junkyard!

[AndrewC]

This one's definitely going to be posted the next time someone claims "the odds are astronomical."

Truly astonomical. It equates to one protein out of all possible proteins of length 11(using 21 amino acids) or a DNA/RNA chain of 23 bases.

21¹¹= 3.50278E+14

4²³= 7.03687E+13

Try a protein of 50

21⁵⁰= 1.29111E+66

or a RNA/DNA chain of 150 bases

4¹⁵⁰= 2.03704E+90