--- On Wed, 5/1/13, Mark Wendt <wendt.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > One thing folks not of the USA do not realize, especially so > in Europe > where the population is much, much denser than in the USA > (Australia has > much the same lay of the land, of wide open spaces with > little population).
Most of the "coasties" on both edges of the USA don't grok that either. They know the edges and a few vacation spots scattered across the land. The rest is flyover country. Instead of all those exotic locations, how about "Survivor: Montana"? Drop them into the middle of nowhere and whoever makes it to city hall in Missoula first is the winner. Around four years ago I looked up the numbers, did a little basic math. Turns out that the entire human population would fit within the borders of Texas with nearly 2,000 square feet of space per person. Would be a bit less now due to population growth but still more room per person than the average American house. Did you see that TV series "The Event"? It only lasted one season. The plot revealed at the end was aliens who look just like us are going to bring their entire population here to escape a soon to blow supernova that'll destroy their planet. BTW, they are going to kill off the majority of the humans to "make room". How many aliens? Only 2 billion. Two billion? That's all?! Could scatter the lot across central Alaska and nobody would notice. Earth is a very large place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
