BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective

Subject: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: saulgoldie
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 01:49 PM

I found this very interesting:


http://smart.tin.it/luccacos/miniatureearth/text_both.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: Amos
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 02:01 PM

That is a nice job of scaling the picture, Saul!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: *Laura*
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 06:18 PM

I thought there would be 52 women and 48 men.
The percentage of women is slightly higher.... I thought...

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 09:56 PM

I saw text only, is there a picture?

Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 10:48 PM

Back up to http://smart.tin.it/luccacos/miniatureearth/

Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 12:38 PM

Here it is:   CLICKY

Really puts it in a nutshell, doesn't it? Thanks for calling attention to that, Saul.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 01:08 PM

How accurate is it though...who collated the information and for what purpose?

Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: pdq
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 01:13 PM

...as of 30 OCT 2005...

POPULATION:         World: 6,531,495,606      US: 296,960,147

Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 01:28 PM

GS, there are many agencies, including everyting from the UN to census bureaus to advertising companies, that keep track of population figures and demographics. Get three or four good world almanacs together and compare figures. They may vary a smidgen here and there, but if you take your figures from any one of them, or average them, and boil them down to percentages (which, essentially, is what that web site does), those are the figures you'll come up with.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: GUEST,saulgoldie
Date: 26 May 06 - 08:32 AM

Having a very active mind, I was reviewing some of my "world view" notions, and I went back and found this thread. Since I posted the original, I thought it only fair to post this correction:

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/populate.htm

A reminder that EVERYTHING we hear is suspect and should be checked by several independent sources. (OTOH, we can ALWAYS trust Fox News. ;-) )