Lucky lobster! 1-in-2mn sapphire blue crustacean caught off Cape Cod

https://www.rt.com/usa/355474-not-photoshopped-sapphire-blue-lobster/

Pretty cool and amazing odds!

"According to the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, “only an estimated one in 2 million lobsters is blue.” But its executive director, Rob Byer, admits that is merely a guess.

About 200 million lobsters are caught in the North Atlantic each year, if the odds are right that would mean about 100 blue ones turning up on average, according to David Spiegelhalter, professor of public understanding of risk at Cambridge University."


Does it really require a professor from Cambridge (with a seemingly made up title) to figure out that math problem? 

Does it really require a professor from Cambridge (with a seemingly made up title) to figure out that math problem?

They need to do something while waiting to save the world during an Independance Day type alien attack. 

How many years will it take for the  Maine Lobsters to establish themselves in  the Pacific Ocean North or San Francisco?

I bet that fisherman got a few offers from people with exotic salt water tanks. If so, I wonder how much the thing would go for? At least then it would live instead of being doused in butter.

Mm mm lobster and butter. Now I'm fricken hungry

professor of public understanding of risk at Cambridge University

Too funny.