The Earth is overpopulated? (Page 3) calybonos: oh... Well, sure then. I can see that. You can't get an accurate measure of your bio-mass with your shoes on, I suppose. Even the doctor makes me take my shoes off to weigh me, now that I think about it...  Dorkencakes: 5.7 billion x 3 cubic feet (180 lbs) = 17.1 billion cubic feet = 5,280 ft x 5,280 ft x 600 ft.... calybonos: Somehow, I can't help but feel we're getting off track here. It's as if we've lost our footing on the topic at hand. Wait...I've got it! Maybe gloves are part of the problem! calybonos: Well, too many feet or not, this little piggy aint going wee wee wee all the way home to save nobody. Okay. Last pun. This thread is getting overpopulated enough. Dorkencakes: Had to come up with something so I figured the worldwide average human weight to be 180 lbs. which I'm pretty sure is heavy so maybe 600 feet is a little high. Also 5.7 billion was the figure quoted in the 1990 Global Population Symposium from Cairo. I picked up those stats over the PA system in an airport on my way to a gig. I crunched the numbers right there and that's what I came up with. So yeah, maybe now it's more than 600 feet. Your point is well taken though that 1 mile x 1 mile x 600 feet aint but a pimple on the ol' Earth. Translation: It's not the space, it's all that comes with it. We're overcapacity unless we change our ways... Dorkencakes: I've spent a lifetime calculating carrying capacity based on oxygen supply systems, mainly water. Dorkencakes: Governor has to activate the national guard to distribute bottled water to the residents of Flint, Michigan because the city water is toxic with lead.  ghostgeek: Seems the good citizens of Flint have been imbibing that polluted water for nearly two years. Nothing to do with the earth being overpopulated though. It was all due to the state of Michigan cutting costs with the water supply. Dorkencakes: whoa, 13,000 power ball lotto tickets a second being sold now! I find this truly remarkable...the numbers...  Big Bopper: With my luck I'll be the guy that gets struck by lightning twice instead of winning the lottery! Dorkencakes: @ ghostgeek, lol "imbibing". Surely we could market some type of new bourbon from the Flint, MI Distillery!!! If they can sell 13,000 lotto tickets a second surely we could clean up!! LOL Dorkencakes: Uh oh, you can't eat snow anymore because it's polluted... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3401578/Forget-yellow-snow-shouldn-t-eat-white-stuff-acts-sponge-pollutants-emitted-car-exhausts.html | Off Topic Chat Room Similar Conversations |
