Subject: Bad Luck & Chain Letters
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 10:11:50 EDT
"Bad Luck & Chain Letters"
If you send this message off to 20 people within the
next 4 days, and each of them send this letter off to
20 other people within 4 days...
In 40 days, approx. 10 trillion of these messages will
cross the Internet.
From day 40 to day 44, an additional 200 trillion of
these messages will cross the Internet, at an average
of 50 trillion messages per day.
From day 44 to 48, an additional 4,000 trillion of
these messages will cross the Internet, at an average
of 1,000 trillion messages a day, 41.7 trillion messages
per hour, 694 billion messages per minute, or 11.6
billion messages per second.
Of course, the Internet will have ground to a complete
halt way before then, and a good thing too, because by
day 44 (assuming each man, woman and child in the
world is tied to the Internet) you would have to respond
to about 2 chain mail letters per second, sending off 20
responses each second, giving you 5/100 of a second
to send each message. If you drop the ball, you will
break about 1,800,000 chain letters per day, bringing
almost two million times the bad luck upon yourself
than if you broke the first chain letter to begin with.
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"Bad Luck & Chain Letters: The Logical Conclusion"
The logical conclusion? It is better to break the
initial chain letter and receive one dose of bad luck
than to continue the chain letter, and by day 44,
receive 1,800,000 doses of bad luck.
I knew one poor fellow who ended up in such a
circumstance. He ended up having 287,345 heart
attacks, losing 5,137 wives, got fired from at least
100,000 jobs, and was run over by a truck. His Visa
card was also revoked. Nobody liked him anymore. He
finally ended up committing suicide 459 times, but he
was so unlucky, he was never successful. Finally, he
resigned to the idea of not dying, and was immediately
hit by a meteorite and vaporized. But his cells went
on to experience even more bad luck.
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