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Thursday, November 03, 2005 → by Danieru
Current estimated human population on Earth: 6.52 billion peopleTaking a rough guess that around 50% of the world's population is asleep or unconscious at any one moment this means that:
- Since you started reading this post roughly 2067 human years have been consciously perceived on Earth (half the world perceiving 20 seconds of time each).
- In the last decade of your life 32 billion human years have been consciously perceived on Earth (10 years perceived constantly by at least half the world's population at a time).
Current estimated age of the Universe: 13.7 billion years
- This means that in about 4.2 revolutions of the Earth around the Sun the ENTIRE age of the Universe has been consciously lived out by the humans on its surface.
For more mind-blowing scales on reality check out the Interactive Secret-Worlds animation here.... and for more statistics of statistics of numbers of things and events check out the World o' Meters page here....
Categories: Human, Earth, Reality, Science, Time, Consciousness, Perception, Nonsense, WTF?
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LOVE IT
December 07, 2005 6:01 PM
people generally go to sleep when it is dark and wake up when it is light.
at any given moment the sun is setting on the surface of the earth.
now, you could actually set up a large differential equation, using population densities at various points on the globe if you wanted to get really accurate...
...but assume that the population of the earth is spread out evenly over the surface.
also assume that it is the spring or fall equinox, so that the light from the sun is equally distributed between the northern and souther hemisphere. that would mean that the days are 12 hours long planet wide. let's say everyone generally goes to sleep a few hours after sunset, say at around 10pm, and wake up at 6am. at any given moment, it is "10pm" at some place on the planet and "6am" at some other place, so an equal amount of people are falling asleep and waking up at the same time. it is only between the hours of 10pm and 6am over 1/3rd of the surface of the earth at any given moment. so, the average number of people asleep at any given moment is the population of the planet multiplied by the ratio of the average of number of hours people get to the number of hours in a day. you could get a much better idea of how many people were asleep on Jan. 26th at 0700GMT by taking into consideration such things as population densities and sunset times on the globe, however this simple algebraic calculation would give you a yearly average, as the densities and changes in season are smoothed out and rendered irrelevant as the earth spun and traveled in orbit over the course of a year.
phew!
April 12, 2010 8:51 AM
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