SCIENCE

New Scientist Magazine "IT AIN'T NECESSARILY SO"
If you ask the right questions, you can prove anything with statistics.
Publish or perish, but don't go outside the box, or they will laugh at you.

JUST BECAUSE ITS LOGICAL
DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE
THE BILL OF RIGHTS
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
EVERYMAN HAS A RIGHT
TO HIS OPINION
EVEN IF ITS WRONG

Mark Twain

Mark Twain said it best: "In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long... There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a
trifling investment of fact."

Einstein:
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former."

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

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To really get an idea of population/area ratios, check night side satellite views.
If we can live on Mars we can live anywhere on Earth
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In 1890 the projection for world population
was that we would be standing shoulder to shoulder
on every square foot of land available and
everyone would be starving to death by the year 2000.
At that time every family had 15 kids to help with the harvest.

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We actually have large areas abandoned
as populations moved to the cities.
But
I'll admit it looks pretty crowded on
Market street in Chinatown, San Francisco
during the chinese new year.