A new look at time.

Motorboat Cruiser · 07-25-2007, 02:53 AM

Hopefully, this hasn't been posted before but I just got turned on to this site via email today.

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

I found it an intriguing view of what happens each minute of each day. Especially interesting is the "now" view.

If you haven't seen it before, enjoy!

innerSpaceman · 07-25-2007, 07:18 AM

Wow.

All I can say is (and I hate to, but I have to) .... more people need to start dying.

Thank god for all those abortions!

All you pompous Christians out there ... watch the "Now" view, keep an eye on births, deaths and abortions ... and then think how fast you'd be sharing your house with 17 other people if women weren't in control of their reproductive choices.

ETA: Ok, had to turn it off. The population growth is freak-me-out ALARMING! I won't be able to go to school today or tie my shoes if I keep watching that!

Prudence · 07-25-2007, 08:35 AM

All I could think about with the abortions figure was: how many of those were solely because the fetus was female?

Cadaverous Pallor · 07-25-2007, 09:38 AM

Funny, it took me a while to stop looking at the deaths counter and notice the births. All I could think of was grieving families, ends of lives long lived, tragic young deaths...

I know there are plenty of births to make up for it.

Tref · 07-25-2007, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

Hopefully, this hasn't been posted before ...

Yes, we do love pointing that out. But I have never seen it before. Thanks.

I agree with Innerspaceman -- more people must die!

(Just not me.)

Chernabog · 07-25-2007, 11:54 AM

For some reason this reminds me of Amelie, where she counts how many people are having orgasms in Paris at that moment.

Why don't they count orgasms? Why mostly crappy stuff?

Alex · 07-25-2007, 12:07 PM

Yeah, I wondered why it is almost all bad stuff (divorces but not weddings, for example).

Also, that earth temperature number is completely meaningless within such a context (and also suffers an excess of significant digits). Not claiming that it's point of increasing global temperature is wrong but that number has, at best, a tenuous connection to reality.

Motorboat Cruiser · 07-25-2007, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Also, that earth temperature number is completely meaningless within such a context (and also suffers an excess of significant digits). Not claiming that it's point of increasing global temperature is wrong but that number has, at best, a tenuous connection to reality.

I don't know if you noticed or not, but the website points out that, out of all the facts listed, temperature of the earth is the one that is somewhat dubious.

Tref · 07-25-2007, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

I don't know if you noticed or not, but the website points out that, out of all the facts listed, temperature of the earth is the one that is somewhat dubious.

As is the one for the number of tacos eaten.

Chernabog · 07-25-2007, 04:30 PM

From some website:

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there are 6.6 billion people in this world. assuming a 1:1 ratio of men to women, there are 3.3 billion men. now assuming that 10 percent of all men on earth have sex (or wank off) every day ( i think it is a very safe assumtion..the actual percentage is surely higher than that), 330 million men have orgasms every day. assuming a simple distribution over 24 hours (i.e. all men are spread out equally across all timezones), that's 13.75 million orgasms per hour..or 229166 per minute..or 3189 per second..

And that's just a rough guess of men!

That's hot.

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Motorboat Cruiser Cruiser of Motorboats Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: So Cal Posts: 3,665	A new look at time. Hopefully, this hasn't been posted before but I just got turned on to this site via email today. http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf I found it an intriguing view of what happens each minute of each day. Especially interesting is the "now" view. If you haven't seen it before, enjoy!
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innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Wow. All I can say is (and I hate to, but I have to) .... more people need to start dying. Thank god for all those abortions! All you pompous Christians out there ... watch the "Now" view, keep an eye on births, deaths and abortions ... and then think how fast you'd be sharing your house with 17 other people if women weren't in control of their reproductive choices. ETA: Ok, had to turn it off. The population growth is freak-me-out ALARMING! I won't be able to go to school today or tie my shoes if I keep watching that!
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Cadaverous Pallor ohhhh baby Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Parental Bliss Posts: 12,364	Funny, it took me a while to stop looking at the deaths counter and notice the births. All I could think of was grieving families, ends of lives long lived, tragic young deaths... I know there are plenty of births to make up for it. __________________ The second star to the right shines in the night for you
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Chernabog Biophage Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Moon Posts: 2,679	For some reason this reminds me of Amelie, where she counts how many people are having orgasms in Paris at that moment. Why don't they count orgasms? Why mostly crappy stuff? __________________ And they say back then our universe Was a coal black egg Until the god inside Burst out and from its shattered shell He made what became the world we know ~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Yeah, I wondered why it is almost all bad stuff (divorces but not weddings, for example). Also, that earth temperature number is completely meaningless within such a context (and also suffers an excess of significant digits). Not claiming that it's point of increasing global temperature is wrong but that number has, at best, a tenuous connection to reality.
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