I blame Obama.
That guy is merciless.
Nitpick: it’s Flash Gordon.
Meh, Buck, Flash, what’s the difference?
Thanks, BMalion.
And, in particular, Ming / Mongo attacked Earth by sending meteors.
Actually, events occur in clusters precisely because the are “random”, or more correctly, because they occur randomly along a distribution. Many natural phenomena with ocasional extreme (one sided) conditions follow a lognormal distribution (a Gaussian “bell curve” relationship to the logrithm of the independent variable). This means that a lot of small event may occur that are virtually unnoticible (like the impact of small meterites on a regular basis) but that the probability of events that result in conditions that exceed a threshhold will occur in proportion to the log of the scale. In other words, you don’t notice e small stuff, but occasionally you are bound to get a couple of low probability extreme level events occurring in near sequence, rather than being clustered around an arithmatic mean.
If noticible impacts occurred at regular intervals, we would suspect that some mechanism was regulating the impacts, e.g. we are intersecting a regular belt of asteroids or someone is deliberaterly bombarding us to keep us on edge.
Stranger
So Ming got to you?
I would really be concerned if huge vases were entering the atmosphere from space. Other than that…it’s all random.
But that would be awesome.
And the vase thought “not again!”