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ID: 3 panel comic titled "snowflakes"

Green says to purple "the youth of today think they are all special & unique"

Yellow, pink, and orange all look at "relatable meme" and say "this is so me", "and me", "me too" respectively

More gather around "relatable meme" as green and purple look on, green says "oh no"

credit: https://webcomicname.com/

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Dr. Manhattan: Thermodynamic miracles...events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive, meeting, siring this precise son, that exact daughter...

...Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged.

To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold...

That is the crowning unlikelihood.

The thermodynamic miracle.

Laurie: But...if me, my birth, if that's a thermodynamic miracle...I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world!

Dr. Manhattan: Yes.

Anybody in the world.

ETA: Because I'm a pedant, typical sperm count range from 15 million to 200 million, but Dr. Osterman was a physicist, not an endocrinologist.