[Colonel Flagg]

It's like the "schoedinger's Cat" paradox. The bullet has a finite probability of being fired at one point or another, so the cat is both alive and dead - but after you look, and that cat has been shot, you've got zero chance of ever seeing the cat alive again.

Singular events (major earthquakes, asteroid impacts, supernovas) have an effect that reaches far beyond statistics. This renders the statistics meaningless.