Powerball

You'll be busy today.

 

Take this one to the bank ... if your humble correspondent cashes the winning ticket, that one's gonna make the top 10 "Gotta do" list ...

 

Fred Phelps Center for Tolerance at Cal

 

The one thing that bugs me about these lists is that they are comparing different time frames. Yes, lottery odds are ridiculous, but these lists make them seem more outrageous than they are.

The "lightning strike" and "asteriod strike" et al are measured over a lifetime, whereas the lottery is measured by THIS WEEK. Rest assured, if you play Powerball every week of your life, your odds are somewhat better than 1:180,000,000 of winning once.

 

That's exactly what this thread needed to get back on topic.

 

The Bill and Hillary Clinton Center of Coffee Machine Repair at ITT Tech.

 

Jerry Falwell Chair in Hermeneutics at Haverford.

 

The Ken Ham Center for Science in the Public Interest at Harvard.

 

Michael Moore School for the Nutritional Sciences at USC

 

Mike Nifong Chair in Prosecutorial Ethics at Duke.

Kenneth Starr Center for Privacy Law at Yale.

 

It's been a long time since I got a C- in AP Statistics, but I'm pretty sure your odds of winning powerball with a single ticket remain the same with each draw.

 

Wilt Chamberlain would have a hard time keeping up with that much money floating around.