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http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Am+I+going+to+die%3F
It used to give an error. Thanks to my feedback, it now works correctly. ;-)
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On 30-6-2010 22:56, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Am+I+going+to+die%3F
>
> It used to give an error. Thanks to my feedback, it now works correctly.
> ;-)
>
According to WA itself:
how many people have ever lived?
106.5 billion people
(as estimated in 2002 by the Population Reference Bureau which assumes
modern Homo sapiens appeared about 50,000 BC)
current world population: 6.869 billion people
In conclusion: more than 5% of all people have never died hence there is
no statistical evidence that supports this conclusion.
If you think earth is 4000 years old, there is even less evidence.
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On 6/30/2010 6:04 PM, andrel wrote:
> According to WA itself:
>
> how many people have ever lived?
>
> 106.5 billion people
> (as estimated in 2002 by the Population Reference Bureau which assumes
> modern Homo sapiens appeared about 50,000 BC)
>
> current world population: 6.869 billion people
>
> In conclusion: more than 5% of all people have never died hence there is
> no statistical evidence that supports this conclusion.
>
> If you think earth is 4000 years old, there is even less evidence.
50,000 BC is a bit late, isn't it? I thought that aborigines had reached
Australia by at least that time.
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"andrel" <byt### [at] gmail com> wrote in message
news:4C2### [at] gmailcom...
> On 30-6-2010 22:56, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> > http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Am+I+going+to+die%3F
> > It used to give an error. Thanks to my feedback, it now works correctly.
> According to WA itself:
>
> how many people have ever lived?
>
> 106.5 billion people
[...]
> In conclusion: more than 5% of all people have never died hence there is
> no statistical evidence that supports this conclusion.
Even if you are the last person alive, there would be no statistical
evidence to suggest you might die, for you can safely say "nobody that was I
has ever died".
Then again, there's no reason to assume we are born at a particularly
special location on the human timeline. If we are preceded by 100B humans,
we can expect another 100B or so will come after us before the end of
humanity. With a world population of 10B and life expectancy of 100 yrs, we
should not be too surprised(*) if humans go extinct in as near as 1000
years.
(*) Dead, sure, but not surprised.
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Personally, I hope so but not just now ;-)
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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On 6/30/2010 3:56 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Am+I+going+to+die%3F
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> It used to give an error. Thanks to my feedback, it now works correctly.
> ;-)
>
Hoo boy... this could be a time waster:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+meaning+of+life%2C+the+universe+and+everything%3F
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+the+ultimate+question%3F
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+much+wood+could+a+woodchuck+chuck+if+a+woodchuck+could+chuck+wood%3F
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=why+am+I+here%3F
Geesh... this is just spooky.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Where+am+I%3F
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Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> Geesh... this is just spooky.
I especially like the last one. Here's another:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+beans+make+five
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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Geesh... this is just spooky.
>
> I especially like the last one. Here's another:
>
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+beans+make+five
OMG this is a fun game
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=do+you+feel+lucky+punk
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=are+you+talkin+to+me
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+matrix
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=who%27s+the+man
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what%27s+up
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+fingers+am+i+holding+up
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Geesh... this is just spooky.
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Where+am+I%3F
What's more fascinating is the method they use to do this. In addition to
all the things you'd think of, the company that publishes the database also
has deals with Amazon, AOL, etc to get lists of IP vs sign-up geographic
locations. So when you sign up for a service (Amazon, facebook, etc) from a
particular IP, that and the address goes to the company, who then do
statistics to figure out if enough people with similar IP addresses are
putting in similar physical addresses.
At least, that's one way MaxMind works, and that's pretty much what most
people use.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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> Hoo boy... this could be a time waster:
Wolfram Alpha: Wasting your time since 2009.(tm)
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