• 7 Billionth baby
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[QUOTE=MrEndangered;33055026]Actually it's the other way round if you look at history. What do you think all those Popes and kings were [I]really[/I] fighting for? Greed, money, power, pure and simple. God was merely an excuse half the time.[/QUOTE] ([i]It was sarcasm[/i])
Ok then tell that to the possibly hundreds of billions of uncatalogued south american and african tribesmen.
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;33055082]Ok then tell that to the possibly [b]hundreds of billions[/b] of uncatalogued south american and african tribesmen.[/QUOTE] You might want to rethink that.
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;33055082]Ok then tell that to the possibly hundreds of billions of uncatalogued south american and african tribesmen.[/QUOTE] You think there are hundreds of billions of people left out? So you think the earth's population is what? 307 billion?
[QUOTE=Miskav;33054115]We could take 1.5 that before we really need to think "oh there are a lot of us". (Some)people just need to stop being greedy as fuck.[/QUOTE] But populations are not efficiently allocated, we are all packed into select areas of countries :v:
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;33054639]7 billion people alive. And god knows how many billion people dead.[/QUOTE] According to this: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515[/url] I'm the 81,089,568,515th person to have lived since history began... :o
[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;33055168]Overpopulation is already a problem and something needs to be done [B]now[/B].[/QUOTE] Well, you can always off yourself, that'll help over-population. I mean, you don't care if its someone elses life, right? [QUOTE=rnd;33055380]According to this: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515[/url] I'm the 81,089,568,515th person to have lived since history began... :o[/QUOTE] "You were the 5,582,269,211th person"
[QUOTE=Shiftyze;33053771]We'd be at space colonization, if religion didn't stop so many from thinking above and beyond. :([/QUOTE] I hope that you don't think all religious people are like that. I really hope you don't
[QUOTE=Garik;33055522]I hope that you don't think all religious people are like that. I really hope you don't[/QUOTE] at least the ones in control are.
One big reason we're not at space colonization yet is the first emperor of China, who purposefully prevented his people from becoming literate/educated, setting the whole world back centuries.
[QUOTE=stepat201;33055717]One big reason we're not at space colonization yet is the first emperor of China, who purposefully prevented his people from becoming literate/educated, setting the whole world back centuries.[/QUOTE] you're right, it had nothing to do with the european dark ages [img]http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/darkages.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;33055711]hurr durr it's all about systematically ending people we need to introduce limits.[/QUOTE] And be like China?
[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;33055711]hurr durr it's all about systematically ending people we need to introduce limits.[/QUOTE] Well if its so bad, it would help, after all. I already am helping by the fact that if I get a serious enough mate, the most I would do is adopt. [editline]31st October 2011[/editline] Though I do agree, we DO SERIOUSLY need limits. Bad. [editline]31st October 2011[/editline] Especially for the rednecks that live in trailers and make 16 kids...
[QUOTE=J!NX;33055769]Well if its so bad, it would help, after all. I already am helping by the fact that if I get a serious enough mate, the most I would do is adopt. [editline]31st October 2011[/editline] Though I do agree, we DO SERIOUSLY need limits. Bad. [editline]31st October 2011[/editline] Especially for the rednecks that live in trailers and make 16 kids...[/QUOTE] we actually don't need limits; we're not even close yet. if we stopped making corn syrup, which is unhealthy enough already, the United States alone could produce enough corn to feed most of the population of the earth, if not all of it.
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33055842]we actually don't need limits; we're not even close yet. if we stopped making corn syrup, which is unhealthy enough already, the United States alone could produce enough corn to feed most of the population of the earth, if not all of it.[/QUOTE] What the hell do we even need corn syrup for anyways if that's the case?
we were producing [I]way too fucking much corn[/I] and we didn't know what to do with it all, so we turned it into corn syrup and now everybody's addicted
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33055882]we were producing [I]way too fucking much corn[/I] and we didn't know what to do with it all, so we turned it into corn syrup and now everybody's addicted[/QUOTE] Isn't it also a sugar substitute in America?
[QUOTE=Miskav;33055916]Isn't it also a sugar substitute in America?[/QUOTE] Yes. From wikipedia: [quote=Wikipedia]Market interventions may increase the cost to consumers for agricultural products, either via hidden wealth-transfers via the government, or increased prices at the consumer level, such as for sugar and peanuts in the US. This has led to market distortions, such as food processors using high fructose corn syrup as a replacement for sugar. High fructose corn syrup may be an unhealthy food additive, and, were sugar prices not inflated by government fiat, sugar might be preferred over high fructose corn syrup in the marketplace.[/quote] In other words, sugar is better for you but more expensive
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33055740]you're right, it had nothing to do with the european dark ages [img]http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/darkages.gif[/img][/QUOTE] Enlighten me on how exactly one quantifies scientific advancement as a number.
[QUOTE=Paramud;33055947]Enlighten me on how exactly one quantifies scientific advancement as a number.[/QUOTE] There are actually a lot of ways researchers will try to quantify scientific knowledge. One such way is the number of sources cited in an argument or paper or something. There's also just the obvious; how long did it take for humans to get from copper to bronze, bronze to iron, iron to steel, etc.? Or looking at how the processing power of computers has increased exponentially in a very short time because we're advancing so rapidly. Each step is more complex than the last, yet we complete it quicker and quicker. When you look at the Christian Dark Ages, we didn't make very many steps. That's why you learn so much about the Renaissance in school, because we left the dark ages and started [I]actually[/I] advancing again.
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33055958]snip[/QUOTE] Only because of artificial means. [editline]/[/editline] Okay you snipped it, nevermind then.
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;33054798]I have a question If these group of kids are supposedly the seven billionth people on the planet, and for the sake of argument nobody has had kids yet, what if these kids all died in an explosion or some shit [i]right now?[/i] Would we give the next seventh billion people the same treatment or would it not count? Or even forgetting the kids, what if a whole bunch of fucking people died somewhere right now? Would they still be the seventh billion kids? Will there be a second group of seven billion kids?[/QUOTE] Shit check out debbie downer over here Seriously though, I don't think it's horribly significant, really. Odds are we've had over 7 billion for a while, so it's pretty meaningless, although for the kids being considered the 7 billionth, I guess it's kind of cool.
[QUOTE=Miskav;33055997]Only because of artificial means. [editline]/[/editline] Okay you snipped it, nevermind then.[/QUOTE] sorry, I snipped it and put it into my other post. It's true though, corn syrup is much worse for you than real sugar, but corn syrup is preferred because it's cheaper than dirt as a result of government subsidies and whatever else.
[QUOTE=rnd;33055380]According to this: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515[/url] I'm the 81,089,568,515th person to have lived since history began... :o[/QUOTE] Huh, so we are the 7 billion out of 81 billion. Interesting figures.
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33055958]There are actually a lot of ways researchers will try to quantify scientific knowledge. One such way is the number of sources cited in an argument or paper or something. There's also just the obvious; how long did it take for humans to get from copper to bronze, bronze to iron, iron to steel, etc.? Or looking at how the processing power of computers has increased exponentially in a very short time because we're advancing so rapidly. Each step is more complex than the last, yet we complete it quicker and quicker. When you look at the Christian Dark Ages, we didn't make very many steps. That's why you learn so much about the Renaissance in school, because we left the dark ages and started [I]actually[/I] advancing again.[/QUOTE] You've really got a dildo in your anus about religion, don't you?
[QUOTE=Paravin;33056213]You've really got a dildo in your anus about religion, don't you?[/QUOTE] Because pointing out the damage religion has done to our species is having a dildo in your ass. Seems logical.
Science brought us firearms and nuclear weapons, which have brought even more direct damage then religion. Seems logical.
[QUOTE=Paravin;33056256]Science brought us firearms and nuclear weapons, which have brought even more direct damage then religion. Seems logical.[/QUOTE] I wasn't talking about loss of life. Scientific progress was lost because of religion, effectively holding our species back half a millennium. Which coincidentally also lead to loss of life, good point.
Muslims aided in scientific discovery during the Dark ages, it was slowed down not completely lost.
[QUOTE=Paravin;33056256]Science brought us firearms and nuclear weapons, which have brought even more direct damage then religion. Seems logical.[/QUOTE] Wow, you completely forgot the huge amounts of things science has also got us. That computer your sitting your ass on, medicine that makes everyones lives very easy, machines that help your ass eat, houses, cars, spaceships, satalites, tv's, hospitals, and a massive list of other things. Way to go. Also, the societal and historical impact of guns and nuclear weapons isn't nearly as massive as religion. What has religion given us? Just a little sanity, for a certain number of people. [B][I][U]That is all.[/U][/I][/B]
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