“Come on! Just one more half a second!”

And the other probabilities are about 0%.

Happy?

I really don’t get how this graph can get 5/5 yet have so many hateful comments. Oh well, doesn’t bother me (:

Probability fail.

By the way, they still find these bombs–some of 1,000 kilogrammes, even to this day.

I liked how they handled it in [i]The Manhattan Project[/i]. Exponential countdown, not having enough pairs of scissors to cut all the wires simultaneously resorting to nail clippers, and even after disabling the bomb the photostrobes activated anyway and it still didn’t explode.

Then there’s dead man’s switches for doomsday devices where, after the timer reaches zero, it throws up another minute as a failsafe. If I remember correctly, this was employed in the new [i]The Outer Limits[/i] series episode “Dead Man’s Switch”. The button in the hatch on [i]Lost[/i] is kinda like that too.

Again, I’d link to examples, but some moderator yesterday didn’t like me linking to anything.

#9: I will not include a self-destruct mechanism unless absolutely necessary. If it is necessary, it will not be a large red button labeled “Danger: Do Not Push”. The big red button marked “Do Not Push” will instead trigger a spray of bullets on anyone stupid enough to disregard it. Similarly, the ON/OFF switch will not clearly be labeled as such.

#15: I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation.

A simple example. Assume your body’s half is symmetric to the other half, then if you get close to an area of water so that half of you is hovering over it (that’s kinda wrong if you take it the physic way, we assume that the weight is equally parted into those two halves when it actually goes to the part that is standing somewhere concrete), there is a 50% possibility that you might fall in.

However if over the next second you jump, the moment your feet barely touch the water surface you have a 100% possibility of falling in – in other words, you just did.

Seriously, I often feel like this site should be rename “Failgraph”