Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!not-for-mail From: John Levine Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:30:20 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Taughannock Networks Message-ID: References: <2ItTO.338744$v8v2.95701@fx18.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:30:20 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="7636"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" In-Reply-To: <2ItTO.338744$v8v2.95701@fx18.iad> Cleverness: some X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: johnl@iecc.com (John Levine) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:228234 comp.os.linux.misc:60132 According to Charlie Gibbs : >On 2024-10-27, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> Short of building huge towers of nuclear illuminated hyrdoponics we can >My back-of-the-envelope calculation tells me that if we continue >to double our population every 40 years, ... You might want to get some numbers for your envelope more recent than the 1950s. Here's a good place to start: https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/900 -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly