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I think Tex was
referring to what come from some book I read once from the
liberry. I forget what it was called, but it was writ
by the famous Sum Gai, long around Jummy Carter's
time. See, back then, friends and mentors of Al Gore had
proved that the world was going to end next week. That was in a
book, the
Population Bomb. Some people was hysterical and jumped out of
windows and such. I'm not making that up. By the time Jummy was
president though, and that bomb had fizzled out, them's what was
warning about it went to warning about global warming because global
cooling had also not worked out. Well, now I've gone and got
myself all mixed up, and prolly dragged you with me. Anyway, buncha
people have done recent arithmetic on the Texas deal even now, like this
guy.
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> CONCLUSION: The total world population could move to Texas and
make Texas in
> to a functional MEGA city that acre by acre would look much like
New York
> City does today. Leaving the Rest of the world with out a single
person on
> it. Image Russia and China devoid of people. The only humans you
could find
> would live in Texas. And that city would be as safe as New York
City is
> today, Skyscrapers and parks included. (2007)
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Don't feel bad, I'm confused too. I guess we have to decide who
to side with here. Tex's people, even with all that bible
spoutin', or real smart people like Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich.
Wait. What the hell does all this have to do with the Obamacy
Bomb? Sheesh.
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Even better: Sci-fi author/scientist Isaac Asimov wrote in the '60s that you could take a 100mile/diameter asteroid (there are many in our system), spin 'em for gravity and burrow out 50ft-high decks 50ft apart you'd wind up with trillion$$ in ore and the land area of the United States.
ReplyDeleteThere's room for hundreds of billions of people if we get off our butts and quit savaging the space program.
I believe P.J.O'Rourke was the first to do this particular calculation in his book "All the Trouble in the World", which is an extended bitch-slap of Algore's preposterous "Earth in the Balance". If you go to the following tinylink and click "Look Inside", you can do a search for "Texas" to find the relevant passage.
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"Imagine seven million people all wanting to live together. Yeah, New York must be the friendliest place on earth." --Crocodile Dundee
ReplyDeleteIt's like You Suck at Photoshop, but with pencil and paper.
ReplyDeleteAbout 20 years ago, I read from a reputable source that everyone currently living could fit in Manhattan as it was then, with as much room as at a cocktail party. I'm talking built buildings, with roofs.
ReplyDeleteThat was before our buddies from Saudi and points mideast took down the recently built World Trade Center towers. We gotta try that experiment today, there are a few countries that won't be invited.
Turing word: singsfu. Oh yes, fu indeed.
Can you imagine running the water and power in and the size of the sewage treatment plant?
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wv: boompe
You owe me three and a half minutes.
ReplyDeleteSo,
ReplyDeleteeverybody grows food in their window boxes or orders out for pizza or what?
So,
ReplyDeletethe illegal immigrants win, then, or what?
So,
ReplyDeletelike, no Super Bowl anymore and all college games are in-conference or what?
So,
ReplyDeletethey finally gonna build that border fence, then, or what?
clean the erasers doug. I want apples.
ReplyDeleteTime for some math.
ReplyDeleteThe area of Texas is 268,820 square miles (Wikipedia). One square mile is 5280 x 5280 square feet (elementary school, 1964). Divide six billion by the number of square feet in Texas and you get 1250. That's how many square feet per person if the entire population of the world were placed in Texas.
I'll leave it to another commenter to describe the resulting effect on the English language.
WV: tessaste
Maybe that describes the resulting effect on the English language.
Anon, when you figure in HIGH rise apartments, it all works out.
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