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Does luck exist? - Orpheus - 15-10-2004
I do believe in luck...
The only thing is ALL i seem to get is bad luck...
PING!
ping...
ping...
ping...
ping...
SPLAT! :dead:
Does luck exist? - Saciel - 15-10-2004
I'ld say I had some pretty good luck today... found several red boxes... o_o three... doing a whole run of episode 1 Ultimate =/ sure it was only a Diska Braveman (bartle) Photon drop (bartle) and Red Slicer (Nano Dragon)
But man... I rarely ever get drops, happy day ^_^
...o_O and I'm so glad that coincidence was spelt correctly at least once in this thread... sorry to be a grammar whore but "quawinsatince" was driving me mad... the needles in the eyes kinda mad
Does luck exist? - Zarius_04 - 15-10-2004
well done, good finding
i found two METEOR SMASH's in the same room next to each other
Does luck exist? - Steppenwolf - 15-10-2004
Gynn Rei Wrote:If you aselect grab a cookie from a jar filled with 50 vanilla cookies and 50 chocolate cookies and they are well mixed you'll have a chance of 1/2 of getting your favourite chocolate cookie.
e.g. you pick one... you get you fave cookie right away... you got lucky. No doubt about it.
Simplest and best examle. And if you kept picking untill the whole jar was empty you'd find that you were "lucky" half of the time
Feeling lucky, punk?
Does luck exist? - mimas - 15-10-2004
Nice example of derision...
Does luck exist? - Steppenwolf - 15-10-2004
No ridicule intended, I appologize if any feelings were hurt.
Does luck exist? - mimas - 15-10-2004
There is a rational explanation for everything. Even if the description does have to dive into the atomic scale...
Does luck exist? - Judgment - 15-10-2004
i vote yes
Does luck exist? - Gynn Rei - 15-10-2004
mimas Wrote:As far as I know there is a mechanism that keeps the balls moving.
Also as far as I know, the motion of the balls is fairly complex, with ricochets and rebounds, plus there is that thing that seemingly plucks the balls out of midair for the ball selection. It's mostly coincidental that someone has the matching numbers on their lottery ticket.
On topic: Three words to disprove luck.
1) Physics
2) Irony
3) Coincidence
It's so complex that it can't be calculated... therefore it must be plain luck because the creators of the machine can't know what comes out.
Does luck exist? - Steppenwolf - 15-10-2004
More like random chaos, the same type of equations for the possibility of animals evolving isn't it. Over my head.
Anyway we've gone a long way without even an accepted definition of "luck", including idioms there's about 9 definitions.