Comments on: The nature of fact http://corycia.net/2007/08/19/the-nature-of-fact/ Musings on physics and life Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:45:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David Smart http://corycia.net/2007/08/19/the-nature-of-fact/comment-page-1/#comment-63 David Smart Sun, 18 May 2008 10:19:44 +0000 http://corycia.net/2007/08/19/the-nature-of-fact/#comment-63 I found this article while trying to find out the area of the Isle of Wight (where I now live) to establish whether it would still be possible to fit the entire population of the world in here. I remembered the statement, in the 1950's, that it could be done and I checked it at the time. As you say - not any more. As an aside, in the '50's a noted 'authority', Prof. Fremlin, stated in a TV program that 'if the population of the world continued to increase at the present rate, by the year (can't remember which) the world would be incandescent because of the body heat of the people'. How's that for linear thinking! Would you feel like sex in a temperature of over 300C? I found this article while trying to find out the area of the Isle of Wight (where I now live) to establish whether it would still be possible to fit the entire population of the world in here. I remembered the statement, in the 1950′s, that it could be done and I checked it at the time. As you say – not any more.

As an aside, in the ’50′s a noted ‘authority’, Prof. Fremlin, stated in a TV program that ‘if the population of the world continued to increase at the present rate, by the year (can’t remember which) the world would be incandescent because of the body heat of the people’. How’s that for linear thinking! Would you feel like sex in a temperature of over 300C?

]]> By: duncan http://corycia.net/2007/08/19/the-nature-of-fact/comment-page-1/#comment-2 duncan Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:05:50 +0000 http://corycia.net/2007/08/19/the-nature-of-fact/#comment-2 But all i said was that it is "possible" to fit all the people in the world on the Isle of Wight, which, i still believe is true. Much of the worlds population are children, how many people can double up (climbing on each other shoulders is allowed), Chinese people are much smaller than us in the west.... etc. However, I do agree that the number of people who have ever lived greatly outnumbers those alive today. But all i said was that it is “possible” to fit all the people in the world on the Isle of Wight, which, i still believe is true. Much of the worlds population are children, how many people can double up (climbing on each other shoulders is allowed), Chinese people are much smaller than us in the west…. etc.

However, I do agree that the number of people who have ever lived greatly outnumbers those alive today.

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