Sentences with phrase «quite improbable»

Roger Revelle and Hans Suess concluded in 1957 that the increase in CO2 was «quite improbable» to reach 10 %, as Callendar had projected.

Since cost probably increases quite super-linearly with temperature, it is possible that the tails of the distribution could dominate risk even though they are quite improbable.

For natural gas to beat diesel, the gas industry would have to be less leaky than the EPA's current estimate, which the new analysis also finds quite improbable.

Chloe Cooper uses performative tours, lectures and instructional videos to propose something quite improbable to groups of people to be worked through together.

But right now the iPad has so much clout, and the Windows 7 OS is so far - fetched, that all these predictions by Ballmer seem quite improbable.

At first this may sound quite improbable.

For that reason the notion of revelation, a notion that we can not separate from what is considered quite improbable in terms of our ordinary and critical standards of plausibility, seems to contradict critical consciousness.

But that seems quite improbable on West's own showing.

Not exact matches

That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event.»

The WMAP team point out that if something as apparently unlikely as Hawking's initials can be found in the CMB data, then the chances of finding other apparently improbable patterns may also be quite high.

The fierceness of this hatred against a man who is quite clearly innocent may strike some as improbable, but the film is not asking for the credibility a naturalistic film would.

Still, it's quite a thrilling ride and definitely worth a look from action fans who aren't as particular about cheesy acting or improbable storylines.

Much of the writing is quite lovely but much of the plot is improbable and has confusing gaps.

«Binchy straddles improbable and possible in her touching saga, and if your mind can't quite wrap itself around St. Jarlath's Crescent, your heart will have no trouble recognizing the landscape.»

There are few other signs of life in these large, ground - floor rooms, and those there are speak of suspension, abdication, displacement and substitution: a long heartrending letter from an artist explaining how personal crisis has forced him to withdraw (Kai Althoff); the politically and logistically improbable journey of a Picasso from the Netherlands to Palestine (Khaled Hourani); Tammy Wynette forever stuck on the line «I'll just keep on», never quite reaching «Til I get it right», the song's eponymous lyrical and melodic resolution (Ceal Floyer).

This assumes that there is anything at all relevant — instead of the wildly improbable — indeed quite claims on inexact differentials and Legendre transforms in thermodynamics.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb describes this circumstance quite clearly in his lovely book, The Black Swan where he has a scientists (like yourself) and a cab driver named Joe analyze the probability of flipping just such a coin and getting just such an improbable string of heads.

a blackswan in the blackswan vs dragonking theory is not an unexpected only... it is a chain of improbable failure that propagate, but not so improbable because the farther it propage the most probable it is to propagate further... it that theory it ils linked to a group of failing point that are quite different but connected.

For instance it's possible that a quantum fluctuation almost but not quite impossibly improbable produced the entire highly ordered universe we observe with at least 7 billion sentient beings able to observe and experiment.