Darren New wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> What I can't figure out is how the **** people know how many humans were
>> born in the whole history of the planet.
> 
> Because people have been taking census for longer than the 
> fundamentalists think the world has existed. It's not all *that* hard to 
> extrapolate population growth, if it's relatively smooth for the last, 
> oh, eight thousand years or so.

Oddly enough, we apparently have records of the price of cotton going 
back several millennia. o_O

PS. It's fractal.

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