Posted on 01/10/2016 1:19:26 PM PST by Reeses
Land covers 196.9 million square miles of the planet, which is broken up into 196 countries that are home to 7.125 billion people.
With so much land available on Earth you would think people are spread out evenly throughout the world - but a stunning new map reveals that isn't the case.
An entrepreneur used data from Nasa to understand where most of the world's population resides and found half of us are crammed into just one percent of the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The drive from Las Vegas to Tahoe or Reno has some pretty empty stretches.
Everyone should do it at least once. There are stretches where you can pull over and look in both directions; you literally are the only car on the road, and the 2-lane highway goes straight off to two vanishing points. It's a rather sobering experience.
That’s Palin’s porch light
That’s the only thing libs think is over taxed
Does this mean that all the liberals that told us we need to abort babies because of overpopulation were . . . gasp . . . LYING?
It was a flux in the continuum. On my alternate earth in the multiverse, it’s really 395... I swear!
I’m happy to say I live in one of the dark spots.
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No, the maps are two different things entirely.
Your map is a satellite photo that shows electrical lights at night.
The Daily Mail maps are just maps—not a satellite photo, with each yellow pixel representing a group of humans living there. They are not lights.
That’s such a fascinating map.
Fresno (home of Free Republic) shows up pretty good.
I’d have thought New Orleans would be more dense and I’m surprised Detroit is as dense as it is.
I was doing the same thing at Fort Irwin which is close to there. Only it wasn't camping, it was called guard duty. It was kind of nice to be able to be able to judge the passage of time by watching the slow movement of the stars against landmarks.
“half the planet’s population lives on just 1% of its land”
And the whole population of the planet can live in Texas in a typical US
neighborhood (one third the size of the state) and still
have enough space and resources left over to support them.
Planet wide overpopulation is a myth.
“This methodology is not valid everywhere.”
Very good point. Almost a full face slap down.
Sounds like when we drove through the panhandle of Oklahoma one cold snowy Nov 29th at 5 O’clock in the morning. Absolutely NO traffic, lots of stars, several lonely distant towns lit up.
You could see red lights slowly twirling around in the darkness. I later noticed those were from wind generators which now infest the country there.
On that entire trip, we saw ONE car heading our way till we hit Fort Supply while going East, then traffic picked up.
And I thought that drive was isolated in the summer!
***during the 1970s, everybody was talking about overpopulation and doomsday.***
I saw MARATHON MAN last night in which Dustin Hoffman goes to the university class (5 or 6 people) and the professor talks on how the world is using up all it’s resources. He then flunks the entire class.
Meanwhile, I am still waiting for that ICE AGE that we were being warned about in the 1970s. I stepped outside a few minutes ago, I think it is here!
No, it isn’t. See post # 50 above.
So did Big Island, Hawaii.
Nobody here, horrible place.
This isn't a big surprise -- most of humanity lives within 1000 feet of sealevel, and most of *that* group lives within 500 feet. BTW, just so you know, this is Part One of "We're All Gonna Die From Climate Change".Just for laughs, the Cumbre Vieja keyword, sorted:
How about this little tidbit....we could give every man woman and child on Earth 2000sqft to live in....and every one of us would fit within the state of Texas.
Remember that the next time you have a pertinent conversation with a stupid liberal.
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