It's theoretically possible, yes. It's also theoretically possible for the quantum force we call gravity to reverse itself tommorrow, and we are all 'reborn' in the result, that some scientist calls "The big fart" in another 14 trillion years.
I'd give those two about even odds.
Do u give those even odds or u wish those have even odds?
(Don't bother answering this question)
It could, mayhap, be a rhetorical device intended to recall to mind some class of items that some demographics, whilst their hands remain warm, might upon occasion be found to have in their hands. Reminds me of a Bugs Bunny utterance along the lines of "Of course you realise, this means something."
-MarkM-