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What?
Like, the thing about the hand aside, if something is extremely unlikely, that literally speaks to the odds of it happening. That's what unlikely means.
Your hand covering your face isn't coincidental or unlikely; everyone's hand does and it's written into your genetics that it should.
There's no particular reason why a big rock should end up in the particular place it did for us, and it's surprising that it did.
It's not likely that it happens often because there's no reason for it to happen, unlike other interesting phenomenon we see like the big red spot on Jupiter or the hexagon on Saturn. Those should be common because there's a systemic reason they happened.
they're both conjecture based on a microscopic sample size.
ahem, this is so wrong in so many ways.
Nope.
pshew wow nope nope nope.
Nothing in your genes controls a proportional size relationship of your hands to your head. And not everyone has large hands, look at trump for example.
you really don't understand planetary formation, stability in orbital mechanics and a bunch of subjects. there's tons of good reasons to suspect the other planets had moons as well; they simply weren't as orbitally stable as ours ended up.
The only thing your (and other person I'm responding to here) argument has going for it is the extraordinarily difficulty of resolving exomoons orbiting exoplanets around our neighborhood.