So...
How bad are the odds of winning a half billion dollars tonight?
Pretty bad.
How bad?
Let's try some creative visualization.
Now, the odds of winning that 500 million dollars are about 176 million to one.
We can visualize that winning lottery ticket as a single playing card in a very tall stack.
How tall is the stack?
If a deck of fifty playing cards is one half inch thick (take out the jokers) then a stack one foot tall has 1200 cards in it. From this we can then extrapolate the height of the stack of cards that single ticket is hiding in.
That stack ends up being about twenty seven point seven miles high, give or take a few thousand feet.
That's five times as tall as Mt. Everest.
That's somewhere in that magical place in our atmosphere between the ozone layer and the ionosphere, where the aurora borealis dance in our polar latitudes.
One card. Twenty seven mile high stack.
But hey, the ticket money goes to the schools, right?
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