Our World Works Because of a Game of “Bet You Can’t”

The quoted StackOverflow post is gold:

"A mass-murderer space rock happens about once every 30 million years on average. This leads to a probability of such an event occurring in the next second to about 10-15. That's 45 orders of magnitude more probable than the SHA-256 collision."

Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4014090/is-it-safe-to-ig...