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Post #31,900
by Ashton
3/12/02 5:57:30 PM
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New Taking that at face value..
No &^$*%# WONDER the poor bastard started out sociopathic and just got worse: imagine having to actually wade through the daily, minute-ly excrescences of a few BILLION deranged, DNA-defective ignoramuses.. EACH one imagining s/he possesses..

The wisdom of Solomon
The beauty of Hera
The strength of Atlas
The perspicuity of Zoroaster
(Or two-faced wishywashiness of a Zebra)
The sex-appeal of Apollo
The dangerous psyche of Medea

...and half of 'em sit around all day imaginin that what *YOU* Rilly *NEED* is: to be endlessly adored, celebrated, fawned over... in their peculiar mouth-noises which sound a lot like fingernails on a chalk-board

And all the time ... ... what *THEY* Really Want from *YOU* is:

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz ??
(and while yer at it - kill my neighbor - I want his [oil] for my Mercedes-HumVee conversion)




NO WONDER.. at all.
Post #31,902
by Ashton
3/12/02 6:01:49 PM
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New LRPD sez ____"You idiot! WE'RE the People's Front of Judea!"
Post #31,905
by wharris2
3/12/02 6:14:10 PM
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New Minor correction :-)
I don't think the human race had its first billion until sometime in the 1000's.

But even a few million would be enough.

Hmmmm, perhaps that explains why the voice of prophecy has fallen silent, He's gone catatonic!
Where each demon is slain, more hate is raised, yet hate unchecked also multiplies. - L. E. Modesitt
Post #31,966
by kmself
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3/13/02 2:51:19 AM
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New Later than that
Most estimates put reaching the billion person milestone in 1800. Second billion in 1930. Third, fourth, and fifth in 1960, 1975 and 1987. I remember world population reaching 4 billion, it's now over six, having reached that number in 1999. [link|http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_411000/411162.stm|Reference].
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What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Post #32,001
by wharris2
3/13/02 11:08:07 AM
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New Which billion?
I was thinking Ashton meant the cumulative people who had ever lived, rather than the number of people alive at the time. Somewhere, I'd seen an estimate that said the total number of people who had ever lived reached a billion sometime in the 1600's.
Where each demon is slain, more hate is raised, yet hate unchecked also multiplies. - L. E. Modesitt
Post #32,005
by Another Scott
3/13/02 11:20:16 AM
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New An estimate is here.
[link|http://members.bellatlantic.net/~bjmcg/story2_peple_lived.html|Here]. It seems reasonable in broad outline.

50000 BC population 2. ;-)
8000 BC population 5 M. 1.1 B births to that point.
1850 population 1.3 B.
1998 population 5.9 B, 110 B total births to that point.

Ignoring the starting point as being 2 people, the numbers seem to make sense based on changes in births per 1000 people over time.

Cheers,
Scott.
Post #32,173
by wharris2
3/14/02 12:09:32 PM
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New LOL, off by ten millenia!
Where each demon is slain, more hate is raised, yet hate unchecked also multiplies. - L. E. Modesitt
     God is watching your posts! - (wharris2) - (33) - March 11, 2002, 07:42:37 PM EST
         Oh come on! - (nking) - March 11, 2002, 08:51:21 PM EST
         I CATegorically deny that! :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - March 11, 2002, 10:31:46 PM EST
         And? - (Silverlock) - (23) - March 11, 2002, 11:40:55 PM EST
             OOOOH! I sense something here - (wharris2) - (22) - March 12, 2002, 02:20:47 AM EST
                 Yeah, don't like 'em much. - (Silverlock) - (21) - March 12, 2002, 08:42:28 AM EST
                     Think you're a sofa; furniture has no feelings for'em eithr? -NT - (CRConrad) - March 12, 2002, 09:02:59 AM EST
                     Cant eatem, dont taste good - (boxley) - (19) - March 12, 2002, 10:46:29 AM EST
                         I've read a cat does in about 80 birds/year. YMMV. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (18) - March 12, 2002, 10:49:22 AM EST
                             Howabout 5 in a two week period? - (inthane-chan) - (17) - March 12, 2002, 03:09:30 PM EST
                                 Agreed. - (admin) - (11) - March 12, 2002, 03:49:59 PM EST
                                     One smart dog - (Meerkat) - (10) - March 12, 2002, 06:43:49 PM EST
                                         Cats are much smarter than many people credit them for. - (inthane-chan) - (9) - March 12, 2002, 08:56:01 PM EST
                                             I saw something possibly contrary to that some months back. - (static) - (7) - March 13, 2002, 05:05:18 AM EST
                                                 Agreed. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - March 13, 2002, 09:39:59 AM EST
                                                     Maybe it did it on purpose; like getting drunk? -NT - (CRConrad) - March 13, 2002, 09:45:32 AM EST
                                                 Intelligence is not so easily characterized - (ben_tilly) - (4) - March 13, 2002, 12:49:05 PM EST
                                                     My dog would pass that test. - (Another Scott) - (1) - March 13, 2002, 01:12:50 PM EST
                                                         I had those same two dogs - (drewk) - March 13, 2002, 01:24:05 PM EST
                                                     My cat's reaction... - (inthane-chan) - March 13, 2002, 01:18:59 PM EST
                                                     And you made my point more eloquently than I did! :-) - (static) - March 14, 2002, 06:11:32 AM EST
                                             On whether animals are smart - (drewk) - March 13, 2002, 10:16:08 AM EST
                                 Oh.. thought you were describin homo-sap, there for a moment - (Ashton) - (1) - March 12, 2002, 05:42:02 PM EST
                                     "Dogs come when you call. Cats have an answering machine." -NT - (static) - March 13, 2002, 04:53:21 AM EST
                                 Purring... - (kmself) - (2) - March 13, 2002, 02:22:46 AM EST
                                     Uh, so you want any potential girlfriend to *like* cats... - (CRConrad) - (1) - March 13, 2002, 06:30:50 AM EST
                                         To be is to do, to do is to be.... - (kmself) - March 13, 2002, 01:24:41 PM EST
         Taking that at face value.. - (Ashton) - (6) - March 12, 2002, 05:57:30 PM EST
             LRPD sez ____"You idiot! WE'RE the People's Front of Judea!" -NT - (Ashton) - March 12, 2002, 06:01:49 PM EST
             Minor correction :-) - (wharris2) - (4) - March 12, 2002, 06:14:10 PM EST
                 Later than that - (kmself) - (3) - March 13, 2002, 02:51:19 AM EST
                     Which billion? - (wharris2) - (2) - March 13, 2002, 11:08:07 AM EST
                         An estimate is here. - (Another Scott) - (1) - March 13, 2002, 11:20:16 AM EST
                             LOL, off by ten millenia! -NT - (wharris2) - March 14, 2002, 12:09:32 PM EST

Drop to the deck and flop like a fish!
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