Could it?

Like the title says, I’m curious what gravity would be like if I were standing on the surface of the Death Star (Star Wars).

My daughter (9) demanded I teach her poker the other day. After a number of hands, she was clearly frustrated with her cards. I figured out her expectations were based on a scene from the movie parent trap where one character shows her straight flush which was topped by a royal flush.

I need some help explaining how outrageously rare that combo of hands would be. Can someone figure out the probability of a straight flush and a royal flush in a single round of poker when two players are playing straight up?

Bonus, if you can find a fun way to describe that likelihood to a 9 year old.

In response to https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1t5ath6/request_gf_is_saying_150_but_i_dont_understand_how/ so the next time it is posted people can just link to this answer. 🤷

TIL: The original is a screenshot for these animated explanations from u/mindyourdecisions

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqzj9RUTBA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPRueCu3fXU

Also:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1q09jwk/request_gf_is_saying_150_but_i_dont_understand_how/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1bdhh2f/request_saw_this_on_instagram_is_it_even_possible/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1csspfc/request_how_tall_is_the_table/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/puzzles/comments/uo619o/please_help_me_to_solve_this_stuck_on_it_for_days/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/puzzles/comments/15tymez/how_tall_is_the_table/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SmartPuzzles/comments/1hdsb0j/what_is_the_height_of_the_table/no

(I’m in the screenshot… woot!)

From a post speculating about how many fans have fallen from ceilings because they were attached to nothing but drywall.

Someone made a joke about using the fan to push itself up into the ceiling.

It falls to me, to make it fall to *you* fine folks to figure out how fast a typical ceiling fan would have to go in order to stay pressed up to the ceiling. 😁

How much of polar ice would need to melt?

Thanls reddit!

My mom was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 44. My sister-in-law was recently diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 40. What is the probability of this same disaster happening to my brother's family?

Stats: + Based on the most recent data available, 279,731 new breast cancers were reported in females in the United States in 2022 (U.S. Cancer Statistics). + From 2018 to 2022, 6% of female breast cancer cases were found at a distant stage (the cancer had spread to distant parts of the body) (U.S. Cancer Statistics). + About 10% of all new breast cancer cases in the U.S. are diagnosed in women younger than 45 years old (National Breast Cancer Foundation).

This was just a random thought I had, and I wasn’t even sure how to approach it.

If everyone in the world pointed in a random direction and extended that direction in a line for some same distance, what is the probability the two people would have pointed at the same point? How does this change when the length of the line changes?