What If Your Bad Luck Kept Getting Worse and Couldn't Stop?

It starts with a stubbed toe. Every bad thing after that is rarer than the last, and the next one is always coming. 0:00 It started with a stubbed toe 0:03 The morning 0:35 The street 0:58 Lightning 1:33 Seven strikes 2:21 The meteorite 3:00 The ticket 3:36 Faster 4:01 Midnight Real numbers used in this video: • A physics model puts the chance of a US nickel landing on its edge at about 1 in 6,000 (Murray and Teare, Physical Review E, 1993). • The US National Weather Service puts the odds of being struck by lightning at 1 in 1,222,000 in a given year. • Roy Sullivan, a park ranger in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, survived being struck by lightning seven times between 1942 and 1977, a Guinness World Record. • On 30 November 1954, a meteorite crashed through Ann Hodges' roof in Sylacauga, Alabama, bounced off her radio and hit her as she rested on her sofa. She is the only person in history confirmed to have been hit by one. • The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338. Made up for this video: everything that happens to you, the cloud that follows you, the second meteorite victim, the lottery win and "your luck". "Today so far" multiplies the real odds above as if each event were independent; after the lottery the numbers are made up. #whatif #badluck #simulation