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Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today
suso writes ""The estimated population of the world will pass 6,666,666,666 today. No doubt an interesting number for people everywhere (not referring to any religion connotations). 5,555,555,555 was passed about 14 years ago. You may not realize that only 80 years ago, the population of the Earth was only around 2 billion. This shows how the population of the world has increased at an alarming rate in recent times, although the growth rate is almost half what it was at its peak in 1963, when it was 2.2%. Unrelated but also an interesting coincidence, the estimated number of available IPv4 addresses is getting very close to 666,666,666. It should cross over today as well.""
looks like ipv4 is the antichrist, three times over...
Slashdot comments passed the 66,666,666 mark, and CowboyNeal was passed over by 6,666 women.
geek page at KY speaks
6 repeating? How do you have 2/3 of a person?
Did you know that 6 to any power other than zero produces a 6 in the resulting number?! It's just as arbitrary as this...
Come on slashdotters, we can make it
Or a meta-meta-beast.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
- Douglas Adams
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Use an axe.
Looks like most of us have been getting screwed repeatedly for a long time. That seems to be the primary cause of the problem.
Tomorrow Phrenology. Coming soon: Tea Leaves, Entrails, Astrology and Tarot Cards.
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I think the Beast can have any fucking number he wants.
Hell, he can probably have two!
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
> [...] a jar of marmalade that causes adultery.
So, uh...do they sell that at Tesco?
..God is a sixist bastard!
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
It's kind of interesting how you misspelled "people that don't browse slashdot" as "us". To be fair, the keys are like right next each other.
FanFictionRecs.net
Once there were 3 people sitting at a bar. At the opposite side of the street is a building. One studies biology, one's an engineer, and one's a mathematician.
Two people go into the building at the other side of the street.
A few minutes pass.
3 people come back out.
First the biologist notices this. And he promptly declares that nature is beautiful. The engineer, a bit more at his senses, states that obviously there simply was someone already inside the building.
But, the mathematician realizes the obvious truth, and announces "You're both wrong. If now one more person enters the building, there will be no-one left inside".
Ha! Not if we're dead!
"Flag on the moon. How did it get there?"
A computer scientist would clearly have seen the real truth - an off by one error!
The main problem being that if everyone in the world starts eating to 'US level', the earth will be crushed into a singularity..
which is totally what she said
Apparently going vegetarian makes you repeat yourself.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.