planet earth

[creaturecat]

apparently this website keeps tabs (sorry tabs) of earth's current population:

http://www.netlingo.com/more/poptick.html

My question is.... what do you think the world's cumulative population would be?

[trekkor]

Maybe 20-30 billion?


KT

[Hugh R]

About to get thinned a whole lot.

[kach22i]

6.65 billion?

[Porsche-O-Phile]

About 6,000,000,000 too many.

Some thoughts:

1. If there are 20 billion sperm per ejaculation and 6 billion people in the world, that represents 6 billion x 20 billion = 120,000,000,000,000,000,000 sperm. That's a lotta' sperm. How come (no pun) we ain't swimming in 'em?

2. With all this population (and obviously fornication leading to it), why is it so hard to get laid these days?

3. Won't we eventually get to a point where every square inch of habitable land is occupied by either people or cemeteries for deceased people?

[coloradoporsche]

There are as many people alive now as there have ever been. So your chance of dying is only 50% based on the data collected so far.

[motion]

Cumulative population must be over 100 billion by now. Don't forget, modern man has been around for what, 100,000 years? There have been times in history when average life expectancy was 10 years. Infant mortality was huge.

[motion]

BTW, if you've ever driven across the state of Texas, you'll realize that the earth can maintain a whole lot more people than it has now. I did a calculation once (while driving across the state of Texas), that under average city population density levels, the state of Texas could contain the entire earth's population.

[Moneyguy1]

THe earth may be able to find physical room for far more people, but may not be able to maintain them as far as foodstuffs, breathable air, potable water and other such niceties.

I live in the wide open and without mountain water runoff, this area would be unable to sustain the City of Tucson. Despite this fragile balance, the population keeps going up without any true long-range planning, the powers-that-be solely interested in the growing property tax base and hence incteasing their "power". Been across Texas, especially West Texas. Pretty country. Hostile to most life forms.

[widebody911]

Originally posted by SoCal911SC
I was reading a good book last night, it said that at one time, the average life expectancy was around 900 years.

And that man has been around maybe 10,000 years, max.

Is this the same book that says you can't eat oysters, and where the old guy was banging his daughter?

[Moneyguy1]

Pork chops are off limits as well, if I am thinking of the same book.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I think I've read that one. It also says something about some dude hovering over waters but before water was invented or something. It was wack. I think whoever wrote it was on acid.

It did have some tasty bits about incest and killing and stuff too as I recall.

[trekkor]

i don't get it!?!...LOL


KT

[Moneyguy1]

(Groan.....)