A very memorable Phillies/Mets game plus something Bin Laden and Hitler share...
Marshall started a thread about the death of Osama Bin Laden. This story was in our local news. At a Philadelphia Phillies/New York Mets game last night, the news of Bin Laden's death started to spread throughout the stadium. As fans were seeing the news on their IPhones and sharing, they started chanting "U.S.A" repeatedly. The players didn't even know what was going on.
I think that it was interesting that this occurred at a game between teams from two of the states which were most affected on that horrible day in 2001. Also, at the time this chant erupted, the game was in the 9th inning and the score was 1-1 (9/1-1).
I know this has already been discussed in Marshall's thread. I just thought I would add this video because it was just amazing the fact of which teams were playing, what the inning and score board read and the way rivals joined together to chant.
Can you think of any other times in history where strange but true occurrences like this happened?
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Ray has a very good point. There is in probability theory a paradox called the "Birthday Paradox".
In a room of 57 people, there is a 99 percent chance that two people will have the exact same birthday (Month and Day).
Check out other interesting statistics on probability at the link below:
But surely with billions of people in the world there would be no coincidence
of any two people being born or having died on the same day ,it is merely
a matter of putting whatever statistic you want to suit your proposition .
I did look it up and here is the answer below. What an odd and also scary coincidence that the announcement of both Hitler and Bin Laden's death occurred on the same day 66 years apart!
That's just weird. I can't think of anything though. But what a coincidence!
I think that people are celebrating the fact that justice has finally, after ten long years, being served. I don't think that the celebration of any human being's death is appropriate. But personally knowing people who have lost loved ones on 9/11, I think that they and many around the world are celebrating the fact that there has been some closure and a certain level of justice carried out.
Considering how many people in the Middle East have suffered and died as a result of American policies over the course of many decades, no doubt you feel that the people there who celebrated the successful attack on the WTC were even more justified. To me, there is very little difference between the two groups and they are both a shameful disgrace to the human race. Not to the same degree as the terrorists and dictators themselves, of course.
but to dance over the grave of another human is still just queer.
I think that people are celebrating the fact that justice has finally, after ten long years, being served. I don't think that the celebration of any human being's death is appropriate. But personally knowing people who have lost loved ones on 9/11, I think that they and many around the world are celebrating the fact that there has been some closure and a certain level of justice carried out.
Ray, I do agree with this:
But surely with billions of people in the world there would be no coincidence
of any two people being born or having died on the same day ,it is merely
a matter of putting whatever statistic you want to suit your proposition .
To me, it was just the fact of how both of these men represented such pain and evil. The fact that the death of two such notoriously wicked men responsible for the suffering and murders of so many... being announced on May 1st was an interesting statistic for me.
On a tangent,
Could it be seen as sick that we are celebrating the death of a human being? Although it's clear that Bin Laden was a fanatic and most definitely pursued the wrong means of expressing his discontent with the US, it's still a little strange to me that an eye for an eye is still considered justice.
Just my halfpence, and I state again, I do NOT advocate Bin Laden's techniques nor do I feel sorry for his death, but to dance over the grave of another human is still just queer.
Every second on average 5 people are born and 1 person pops the bottle. That means that people cark it at the same time but on different days all the time.
