> On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 01:22:19PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: > > > who wonders how tall (in terms of number of stories, anyway) the > > building would have to be if we just built it over the entirety of > > Kansas > > Area of Kansas = 82282 sq mi = 2.29E12 sq ft > > If we stick with Fools 900sq ft per person and 6B people, area required > = 5.4E12 sq ft > > 5.4/2.29 = 2.35, so you would need 3 floors, but the top one would only > be about one-third full (or whichever floor was least popular). > > Erik Reuter
Let's add Nebraska then. 77358 sq mi = 2.16E12 + 2.29E12 = 4.45E12 and the division gives 1.21. So one floor building with 1 billion extra. They can be farmers. (Shouldn't this discusion be on Asimov-L?) For my $0.02, if we have to put everyone in texas, we can make other assumptions like fission (fussion?) waste disposals, energy to matter food dispensors, superconducting energy supplies, and anything else we want. The basic idea is the same, the eco-nuts don't know what they are talking about. You think a place is too crowded? MOVE! You think we are running out of a resource? Then stop using it yourself, don't whine about it. (I know that can't apply to everything, like water. I hate water companies and am so glad my water is managed by the town, not a company. Locally a communtiy woke up with no water. At first they blamed it on power going off at a pump station and the pumps didn't automatically restart. What? (I worked for a place that ran 24/7. If the power went out you could be damn sure I'd be standing by the pumps waiting until the power came back on. If I was on call that night/weekend.) Then they found a pipe leaking and blamed it on that. The company said a sinkhole caused the pipe to break. They finally had the water on in three days. At the next local government meeting the company wanted an emergancy price increase because of the problems. The town was smart however; they had taken the broken pipe and got it analized. They found that the pipe wasn't welded properly, it broke, the leaking water caused the sinkhole. Now the town is suing the water company for the costs incurred for bringing in water, lost revenue, other little things.) In a new direction. I heard a commercial that said 1/5 of Americans have a disability which I thought was very high, but found a web site backing up the claims: http://dsc.ucsf.edu/UCSF/spl.taf?_from=default (Look under FAQ, didn't feel like using the make it shorter service). Kevin T. Life in wartime
