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BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective

29 Oct 05 - 01:49 PM (#1593232)
Subject: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: saulgoldie

I found this very interesting:


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


29 Oct 05 - 02:01 PM (#1593236)
Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: Amos

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

A


29 Oct 05 - 06:18 PM (#1593370)
Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: *Laura*

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

xLx


29 Oct 05 - 09:56 PM (#1593488)
Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: Donuel

I saw text only, is there a picture?


29 Oct 05 - 10:48 PM (#1593521)
Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: The Fooles Troupe

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


30 Oct 05 - 12:38 PM (#1593616)
Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: Don Firth

Here it is:   CLICKY

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

Don Firth


30 Oct 05 - 01:08 PM (#1593632)
Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: Georgiansilver

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


30 Oct 05 - 01:13 PM (#1593635)
Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: pdq

...as of 30 OCT 2005...

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


30 Oct 05 - 01:28 PM (#1593641)
Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: Don Firth

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


26 May 06 - 08:32 AM (#1747793)
Subject: RE: BS: Miniature Earth--Perspective
From: GUEST,saulgoldie

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. ;-) )