User blog:LurkerLordB/Real-Life People born after a POD

I was reading up on the chances of all of us existing, and I have determined that one of the most implausible features of many timelines on this wiki is the way that real-life people, born after the Point of Divergance, are still alive, in some cases hundreds or even thousands of years later.\

The chances of the sperm cell in the father that carries the DNA necessary for one person to be the one to fertilize the egg is 1 to 12,000,000,000.

The probability of any one being born after 10 generations past the POD, or 250 years, is 1 in 6000000000000000

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.

And that is just factoring in the chances of the sperm cell of the father being the correct one, not :

" - the mother's contribution (women develop with millions of Oocytes, most of which do not even become eggs) - the men and women that died in war, famine, disease without or with fewer offspring-- in some generations 50% of humanity. - the men and women that died from natural causes. - children that died before reaching the age of reproduction. - fetuses and fertilized eggs that died and were naturally aborted."

It's sort of funny that we have many timelines marked ASB that are actually far, far less implausible than many that have OTL people being born centuries after a POD.

Source: http://members.shaw.ca/tfrisen/chances_of_you_existing.htm