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Post by onlymark on Jan 3, 2011 16:01:26 GMT
The population of the world is supposed to exceed 7 billion this year. If you stood everyone shoulder to shoulder, how much space would we take up?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 3, 2011 18:12:44 GMT
Wow ~~ that is really well-presented and informative, although I feel as though I should politely die now to make a little more room.
Seriously, the thing that surprised me the most was that there are only 194 countries in the world. I would have guessed a lot more. Damn ~~ this really puts a crimp in vacation planning.
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Post by onlymark on Jan 3, 2011 18:34:52 GMT
It depends if you count Taiwan.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2011 19:07:03 GMT
Bill Gates could give everybody a dollar and he'd still be rich.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2011 19:09:55 GMT
Besides Taiwan, two other places that consider themselves to be independent are not members of the United Nations (which has 192 members) -- Kosovo and Vatican City (population 771).
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Post by bjd on Jan 3, 2011 20:20:27 GMT
I don't imagine Vatican City is in danger of contributing to the population explosion.
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Post by fumobici on Jan 3, 2011 22:05:17 GMT
I don't imagine Vatican City is in danger of contributing to the population explosion. They function effectively as cheerleaders for population explosion.
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Post by onlymark on Jan 4, 2011 5:58:11 GMT
They don't use condoms though, do they?
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Post by bjd on Jan 4, 2011 8:30:02 GMT
True, Fumobici. I hadn't thought of that, only of their own personal contribution.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 4, 2011 8:50:20 GMT
I like those satellite night-time views of earth. That's when you can really see how unevenly population is distributed, with some parts so lit up it's hard to look at them, and other land masses completely dark.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 4, 2011 13:11:11 GMT
Couldn't they all fit on the Isle of Wight? Or was that China? Or was that something else altogether.........
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2011 13:35:45 GMT
I thought they already fit onto the Isle of Wight during the festival in 1970.
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Post by onlymark on Jan 4, 2011 13:37:45 GMT
I've always wondered, if no man is an island, what about the Isle of Man?
Anyway, I think the factoid is that if all the women in the world gathered together on the Isle of Wight and a dome was put over them, there would be enough hot air generated to run the rest of the world. Was it that one?
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Post by onlymark on Jan 4, 2011 13:42:36 GMT
If all the population stood in a line around the coast of Antarctica and then walked in step, the world would rotate seventeen percent faster (or slower the other way)?
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Post by onlymark on Jan 4, 2011 13:45:31 GMT
If every human posted a photo of themselves on Any Port, bixa's computer would explode as she tried to put them in order?
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 4, 2011 14:38:22 GMT
If every human posted a photo of themselves on Any Port, bixa's computer would explode as she tried to put them in order? That's very tempting............... ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 4, 2011 16:45:42 GMT
Lucky for me that I already have pictures of some of you, so I can get a head start on the process.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 4, 2011 17:15:17 GMT
That's me in the middle! (when I had hair) ;D
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Post by tod2 on Jan 4, 2011 17:19:50 GMT
Oh Mick!~ I recognised you instantly!
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Post by onlymark on Jan 4, 2011 17:34:30 GMT
This is actually me -
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 4, 2011 17:36:47 GMT
This is actually me - Nah. That's Einstein........
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 4, 2011 17:43:19 GMT
Well, hell-ooooooh, handsome!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2011 18:13:42 GMT
It makes more sense about going to those prehistoric sites in the desert now.
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Post by onlymark on Jan 4, 2011 19:32:27 GMT
Compared to me, Mick, he probably was as clever.
K2, just communing with my ancestors.
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