What is the most unlikely event to have taken place?

Norman_Conquest

Norman_Conquest

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I have been reading The Guardian and they asked the above question with readers replying. One guy stated the fact that the Earth, the moon and the sun are positioned in such a way that the moon and sun appear to be identical in size from the surface of the Earth during a total eclipse.

So what is your most unlikely event to have taken place?

I am sure posters will come up with events that have taken place that are better than mine but this means a lot to me.

I still pinch myself when I think of the players I have seen in a Boro shirt and the number of cup finals I've seen us play in (if only we could have won one or two more).

In 1977 I went to see Man Utd v Liverpool at Wembley and was stood in the Man Utd end, I was 14 at the time. Liverpool had beaten the Boro that year in the quarter-finals and I wanted Man U to win (Liverpool dominated everything at the time). I remember Tommy Docherty and Bob Paisley leading the teams out on a hot sunny day and thinking I would die a happy man if I could just watch the Boro walk out at Wembley, I mean, is it too much to ask?

Fast forward to 1990 and the Zenith Data Cup Final and there I was watching Colin Todd lead us out at Wembley but although I had watched the Boro at Wembley, I felt it didn't count as a major trophy.

I finally got my prayers answered during the Robson era and my eldest son honestly thought, like many of the Premier League Babies that the Boro played at Wembley regularly. Steve McClaren delivered our first trophy (at Cardiff) and we all got to watch Southgate lift the first trophy Boro has ever won. What a day, what a memory but this isn't my unlikely event though.

My unlikely event is watching us play in a major European Cup Final. As a child in the 60's and 70's, I had my wall covered in Boro programmes, pictures of John Hickton, Eric McMordie and all the top Boro players of the time. I dreamt about watching the Boro playing at Wembley but Europe never crossed my mind, that was for the top teams like Liverpool, Man U, Spurs, Celtic, etc. and wasn't something the Boro would ever grace. Watching us play at Eindhoven is the pinnacle of my Boro supporting life and something I thought I would never see.

So what is your most unlikely event to have taken place?
 
Every time you shuffle a deck of playing cards the order of those cards is extremely unlikely to have occurred.

The odds of shuffling a standard 52-card deck in the same order twice is one in 80 unvigintillion.
 
There's a lot of mad mathematics around conspiracy theories, the moon/earth/sun one being related to the moon being hollow/artificial.
There's also one related to the size of the Great Pyramid and how it's dimensions relate to the polar and equatorial dimensions of the earth.

For me, the unlikeliest event is the moon landing. I'm not denying it happened, but when you think about it, the moon landing was just a díck waving contest. A very expensive one, but one none the less.
 
dooderooni said:
There's a lot of mad mathematics around conspiracy theories, the moon/earth/sun one being related to the moon being hollow/artificial.
There's also one related to the size of the Great Pyramid and how it's dimensions relate to the polar and equatorial dimensions of the earth.

For me, the unlikeliest event is the moon landing. I'm not denying it happened, but when you think about it, the moon landing was just a díck waving contest. A very expensive one, but one none the less.
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But then you could say that about polar exploration or climbing Everest.

I do find it strange though that we know so little about our oceans but send rockets into space to explore the universe.
 
There are lots of unlikely events. That the universe is configured the way it is to support life, very unlikely. That complex life developed from single celled organisms more so.

I would argue with Festa's unlikely. It is only unlikely that the same sequence happens twice, something that statistically has never happened. Soz Festa!
 
More quirky than unlikely, however, always tickles me that if you google Ayresome park crowd pictures, the 2nd image that comes up is a crowd pic where I can see myself clearly, and that match just happens to be the first ever game I attended!
 
By modern standards this doesn't stack up.
The oldies will get it

Born into poverty in Middlesbrough 1959. Single parent family from 1967.
Went on to get a law degree at Newcastle Uni
 
Me walking down linthorpe road way back in the day. And 3 guys pulled over their car and started chatting about Boro. 3 hours later I was in Liverpool watching Boro v Everton.. that was unlikely. To this day, I have no idea who they were ..
 
The sun moon thing is one of the things that makes me think that just maybe we do live in a simulation. The moon is gradually moving away from us - once it would have been huge in the sky and covered the entire sun; one day it won't be big enough to cover the sun. And we happen to be alive at the precise moment it fits exactly. Hmmm.

Other than that, the chances of intelligent life - or what passes for it - seems infinitesimally small. So you can pick from the first cell division, the mass extinctions, the creation of oxygen.
 
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