Presumably you are also not counting the farming acreage needed to supply food for that many people.
Correct. It's absolutely impractical, and just a thought experiment.
With vertical hydroponic farming of yeasts and vegetables and intensive soy & legume farming, plus intensive waste (including urine/feces) recycling, certainly a multiples more people could live on the earth and even modestly thrive.
It would require such a massive restructuring of every society -- plus some pretty necessary technological breakthroughs -- that it's not worth more that idle hypothesizing about, though.
We know the practical limit is somewhere below that number.
I did some calculations about 10 years ago: 484,246 sq mi (1,254,197 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live, 4 persons per lot, in lots that are 60'x150' (a nice US suburban plot). That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri. Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom. Does *not* include street, employment, etc.
296,443 sq mi (767,787 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live at the same population density as Manhattan, New York. That is ~ Arizona or Nevada. Alternatively, that ~ double the size of Japan or Zimbabwe. *Does* include streets and employment.
Even in this day and age, there are many people who celebrate people having as many babies as possible. In some of the countries that we have helped extend life span, their culture is involved with a lot of procreation, and you just don't change that over night.
So we just have to stop sending them relief, and say, You feed them, if you're so concerned! when an overly-compassionate twit asks how we can just sit by when all these poor children in Africa are starving.
Did Apple really have the market share to influence the industry in 1996?
Or is it more likely that Intel was creating reference mother boards with USB ports on it, and enough kit was finally "out there" that peripheral manufacturers started switching to USB?
How USB won is because it was the port that was a hell of a lot cheaper and pushed by Intel
FTFY.
If FW had been reasonably priced, there would now be 1 USB1.0 port on machines for kb+mouse, and 3 or 4 FW1200 ports for cameras, external HDDs, scanners, etc.
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(a) Because that's intruding where package management doesn't belong, and
(b) into which package would you add this patch?
Presumably you are also not counting the farming acreage needed to supply food for that many people.
Correct. It's absolutely impractical, and just a thought experiment.
With vertical hydroponic farming of yeasts and vegetables and intensive soy & legume farming, plus intensive waste (including urine/feces) recycling, certainly a multiples more people could live on the earth and even modestly thrive.
It would require such a massive restructuring of every society -- plus some pretty necessary technological breakthroughs -- that it's not worth more that idle hypothesizing about, though.
steam distillation is about the simplest/cheapest means of doing that.
It's simple, but "cheap"? Why do most desalination plants use reverse osmosis?
And every other month there's "news" of a breakthrough to make desalination easy and cheap. Not that they ever come to market...
And then everyone remembers where a big chunk of the world's food and technical innovation comes from.
So, the least productive must first visit the suicide booth.
We know the practical limit is somewhere below that number.
I did some calculations about 10 years ago:
484,246 sq mi (1,254,197 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live, 4 persons per lot, in lots that are 60'x150' (a nice US suburban plot). That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri. Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom. Does *not* include street, employment, etc.
296,443 sq mi (767,787 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live at the same population density as Manhattan, New York. That is ~ Arizona or Nevada. Alternatively, that ~ double the size of Japan or Zimbabwe. *Does* include streets and employment.
We don't boil water in order to sterilize it. Why should they have to?
Even in this day and age, there are many people who celebrate people having as many babies as possible. In some of the countries that we have helped extend life span, their culture is involved with a lot of procreation, and you just don't change that over night.
So we just have to stop sending them relief, and say, You feed them, if you're so concerned! when an overly-compassionate twit asks how we can just sit by when all these poor children in Africa are starving.
I'd like to see the water that couldn't be put in a pot.
I think you're making a joke, but there are too many idiots spouting arrant stupidity to tell whether or not you're serious.
human development in Africa was way ahead of human development on other continents for hundreds of thousands of years.
Primitive man didn't first leave Africa that much evolutionarily sooner than did H. Sapiens.
That's got to count for something.
Not really. Why do you think they left?
Hopefully you smiled at the various cameras in-store
Or wear a baseball cap and hoodie. Preferably with a full beard. And an a heavy foreign accent.
Then presumably they'd be overturned by prior art.
As a side note, I've always wanted to take an old mini fridge and turn it into a computer case.
How about a wet bar?
http://toyvax.glendale.ca.us/~vance/vaxbar.html
it did not become popular until Apple ...
Did Apple really have the market share to influence the industry in 1996?
Or is it more likely that Intel was creating reference mother boards with USB ports on it, and enough kit was finally "out there" that peripheral manufacturers started switching to USB?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=microsoft+ramcard
31, but who's counting...
basis and are almost always wrong. Why should we believe them this time?
If you can, do.
If you can't, teach.
If you can't teach, pontificate.
How USB won is because it was the port that was a hell of a lot cheaper and pushed by Intel
FTFY.
If FW had been reasonably priced, there would now be 1 USB1.0 port on machines for kb+mouse, and 3 or 4 FW1200 ports for cameras, external HDDs, scanners, etc.
currently it's being "attacked" by tons of sewage pumped into it each day.
How can such a Friend Of The Workers, Friend Of Human Rights And Hater Of Capitalism like Daniel Ortega allow such a thing to happen?
No. It would have happened in the early 1960s, but was canceled over strong local opposition and no real economic need for a port at Cape Thompson.
Even Chromium. My daughter likes to open lots of YouTube tabs, and that (a) is really confusing, and (b) drains the battery fast without Flashblock.
FF has made some anti-customisation (and thus anti-user) changes lately that are really pissing me off.
I haven't noticed any. What kind of changes?
On my poor old computer it is clearly visible on the CPU load
Flashblock FTW!
Maybe someone should have used Raison d'Ãtre instead of format.
An astronomical-skin-of-the-teeth miss is still... a miss.
it posed no risk? Are there *really* people who think that a boulder so far away is actually a danger?
If so, sterilize them. Now!