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To: Steve Van Doorn
Did you know if you took every man, women and child on earth you could fit them all in Road Island or you can give each family on earth each 10,000 sqft of land in Texas. Really? Let's see.

According to http://www.shgresources.com/ri/almanac/, Rhode Island has a total area of 1,545 square miles. 500 square miles of that is water, leaving 1,045 square miles of land.

1,045 sqare miles = 27,878,400 square feet.

6 billion people (every man, woman, and child on Earth) / 27,878,400 square feet = 215 people per square foot. That sounds a bit crowded.

As for Texas: (http://www.shgresources.com/tx/almanac/)
268,581 sq. miles total.
261,797 sq. miles of land.
7,298,481,484,800 sq. feet of land.
divided by 6 billion people =
1 person for every 1216 square feet, or a 35ft. x 35ft. plot of land for everyone.

So yeah, if every family on Earth had 8 people, each family would get 10,000 square feet of land.

Don't believe everything you think.

89 posted on 02/11/2006 11:17:57 AM PST by Washi
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To: Washi
”1,045 sqare miles = 27,878,400 square feet.”

Your off on your calculation here is the correct figure:
1 045 square mile [survey, U.S. statute] = 29 133 044 865.916 12 square foot

onlineconversion.com

94 posted on 02/12/2006 12:47:32 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* “I love you guys”)
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