nohpee° Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 on a howies advert i reads 'there are more people on planet earth today than have ever died" talk amongst yourselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sameer Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 (edited) They nicked that from a documentary I watched at school 2 years ago about disease. Well, they probably didn't... but it's a nice coincidence. p.s. I think it's marginally untrue. Edited June 7, 2005 by Sameer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyoyo Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 that cant be true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cant_ride Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 depends if they mean alive people... but then it wouldnt make a difference because the total of alive and dead people would still be the same as the total that ever lived ... unless people died in space and stayed there... but i dont think thats happened? but on a serious note thats about as true as my foot being the ruler of mars. unless of course theyre saying that at any given point in history there arent as many there are now ... because there's never been above 6,000,000 until recently. but the total amount of people ever over the complete history of the earth greatly outweighs our present total.. bubbye oli anything to get out of mechanics revision Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexx Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Unless there is some cryptic wording that i'm missing... it's just not true. http://www.aarrgghh.com/no_way/howManyPeople.htm http://www.economist.com/diversions/millen...Story_ID=346605 an estimate of about 105 billion births since the dawn of the human racethe current 5.9 billionabout 5.5 percent of all people ever born are alive today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totaltrials Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Because it's on a T-shirt doesn't mean it's true, it's probably from a novel as are most quotes printed on T-shirts. Phil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich4130 Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 there are more people on planet earth today than have ever died ← Maybe it means dead people too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sameer Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Maybe it means dead people too? ← Yes, which still would be untrue as outlined by cant_ride a few posts earlier. there's never been above 6,000,000 until recently. 000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich4130 Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Yes, which still would be untrue as outlined by cant_ride a few posts earlier. 000 ← I swear that wasn't all there when I posted haha, if so, I'm a gimp.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biketrialler Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Dead people + alive people = total people on the world today. = more people on planet earth today than have ever died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Clark Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 What about people who got cremated/burned to death/eaten/etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biketrialler Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Well the statistic could well be true even without the people that got cremated burned etc ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexx Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 For that to be true more than 95% of everyone who's ever died body would still have to be intact... not just dust. And that clearly isn't true! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Clark Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Trials Forum: Making Life Complicated™ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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