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Post by Jo on Mar 3, 2011 2:21:15 GMT -5
In 2002, 5.8% of people ever born were still alive. This, ladies and gentlemen, bodes badly.Wait, I'm not understanding that statistic. Is that a convoluted way of saying we have a bigger population than we did in the dark ages? ._. Pretty much- if you think of all the human beings ever born up until now, 6% of them roughly would have been alive in 2002. Which is a hugely high percentage, if you think how long humans have been around.
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Post by Tam on Mar 3, 2011 3:09:22 GMT -5
In 2002, 5.8% of people ever born were still alive. This, ladies and gentlemen, bodes badly.Wait, I'm not understanding that statistic. Is that a convoluted way of saying we have a bigger population than we did in the dark ages? ._. Well, yes, but it has more to do with the rate of increase. I'm not entirely sure what this stat assumes to be the origin of "people", but if the modern average life expectancy for a human is around 70 years, then that means that 5.8% of all humans, over a period spanning at the very least tens of thousands of years, have been created within the last seventy years. If this rate had been consistent for the full duration of our existence on Earth, then it would have taken just over 1200 years for us to reach our current world population (compare with the real timeline, the tens of thousands of years mentioned previously). ...Mind you, the numbers I used might not be entirely accurate, since what we understand to be "humans" emerged behaviourally about 50 000 years ago but anatomically, they resembled us very closely 150 000 years before that. And also mind you that statistics was never my strongest subject. >__> But hopefully that gives you some idea of why I found it such a mind-boggling figure.
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Post by Omni on Mar 3, 2011 4:11:41 GMT -5
If you're worried about overpopulation, consider wars and natural disasters as factors.
...Or, if you want something less-depressing, take a drive through Texas, or Nevada.
Lessee... Apparently, at least with one program, it is possible for a recording to turn out a bit flat than the real thing, or at least for them to sound flatter. I'm not sure how this works. I'm guessing it has something to do with the compression.
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Post by Tam on Mar 12, 2011 20:19:46 GMT -5
Sodium lauryl sulfate is a surfactant and commonly used as a detergent in things like toothpaste, shaving cream, and bubble bath.
This is interesting because it is also in my angel food cake mix.
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Post by Omni on Mar 13, 2011 17:47:57 GMT -5
So. We humans cannot make our own vitamin K, and vitamin K is a clotting agent, so it's important if we don't want to bleed to death. Instead, the bacteria in our digestive tract eat stuff up and excrete the vitamin K for us.
So, scabs are bacteria poop.
Organic things are weird, aren't they?
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Post by Lord Hayati on Mar 13, 2011 18:09:02 GMT -5
Delicious fruit can fall up and kill me. D:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2011 19:51:58 GMT -5
Delicious fruit can fall up and kill me. D: What's that like? Lemons bouncing off the ground and squirting juice in one's eyes is the only scenario I can come up with, which...is probably not what you ran into.
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Post by Cow-winkle on Mar 13, 2011 23:04:57 GMT -5
Delicious fruit can fall up and kill me. D: Delicious fruit can fall up? Sounds like Isaac Newton got the whole apple thing the wrong way around.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2011 1:17:03 GMT -5
Delicious fruit can fall up and kill me. D: What's that like? Lemons bouncing off the ground and squirting juice in one's eyes is the only scenario I can come up with, which...is probably not what you ran into. I think he's making a reference to I Wanna Be The Guy. (That's a stupidly hard platform game which features, among other things, deadly fruit that can defy gravity and fall upwards... and sideways.) Anyway, as for what I learned: I learned about the existence of things called community health centres.
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Post by Grove on Mar 17, 2011 9:16:58 GMT -5
Apparently I don't get squeamish when I actually dissect something for realz, gloves covered in blood and guts and whatnot, but I do feel slightly sick when I'm just viewing a photograph that I need to reference.
:I
Also, Indians make great bread.
Lastly, don't eat Balut after devouring Thai noodles with a strong aftertaste.
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Post by Lizzie on Mar 23, 2011 9:44:47 GMT -5
There is no such thing as spreadable butter. Ever.
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Post by Gelquie on Mar 23, 2011 19:43:29 GMT -5
If you make up a word, Google it before you start using it. >_<
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Post by Lizzie on Mar 23, 2011 19:58:19 GMT -5
If you make up a word, Google it before you start using it. >_< Aw, come on, it wasn't bad. Also, I learned that Tumblr is going to make me die of annoyance.
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Post by krimzon on Mar 23, 2011 20:48:08 GMT -5
If you make up a word, Google it before you start using it. >_< I learned a new word. It was awesome. Good job, GLQ.
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Post by insanepurpleone on Mar 24, 2011 15:35:33 GMT -5
I learned about the Tetris Effect. I've totally done that before with Tetris and Sudoku.. not in real life, but I see it in my head sometimes, especially if I'm stressed or half asleep.
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