On 11-6-2009 12:53, Invisible wrote:
> You know when somebody says that something is "astronomically big"?
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> ...well, it turns out astronomers use some pretty freakin' big numbers!!
> o_O
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> Anyway, I have collected the following series of numbers from Wolfram
> Alpha:
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> 1.1 10^11 Number of people who have ever lived.
I don't believe that number. I think if you add all people since the
last ice age you get someting like 10-20 e9. This number also seems to
assume that there have been on average .5-1 million people on this earth
for the past 2 million years or so (half that if you think mankind is 4
million years old). I'd like to see evidence for that.
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