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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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7 Billionth person to be born on Monday
Earth pop. now apx 7000000000
Many will wring their hands at this. But here, at the Cellar, we watched that video from that dude; That dude who showed how, once cultures advance a little, their lifespan goes way up and the number of kids in their families goes way down. From seven children per family to two children per family. At one point the population curve looked like a J and many people projected that this was a disaster of tremendous proportions. But at the same time, global fertility rates and the number of babies popping out started to fall: ![]() Now they've realized that the curve is going to be more of an S than a J. It's not that the original population scientists were wrong with their science. It's that there were forces at work they hadn't anticipated. Maybe there are forces that we don't understand. There may be human instincts to keep reproduction levels high enough to ensure the survival of the tribe. If life is hard, you need seven children to keep the it going. If life is easy, you only need two. |
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Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB.
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Chicago suburbs
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What will they win?
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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Monday Monday can't trust that day
Monday Monday 7 billionth baby just popped out they say Oh Sunday morning, it gave me no warning of what was to be... That Monday morning there'd be 7 billion babies.
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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What if, in another 1000-2000 years, we're all having litters of 3-4 at a time, with gestation periods of 14 months? |
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lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
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I'm the 3,125,391,604th person, according to this.
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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Clod, mankind should have all the genetic stuff worked out by then, to produce whatever is best so... what would you women prefer to birth, four 3-pounders or two 6-pounders?
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Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
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I would prefer that men birth them. Whatever the poundage.
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
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It ain't just the birth, it's the next 18 years. Better to engineer a larger birthing canal in the first place. And of course, no one wants a worldwide "hotdog in a hallway" epidemic, so now we have to engineer bigger penises, too. But I hear that research has been well underway for decades, so it's alright.
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King Of Wishful Thinking
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Philadelphia Suburbs
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You're still just a babe, babe ![]()
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods
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I'm 2,184,948,001... take that all you young wippersnappers !
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lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
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And I didn't think you were that much older ...
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Location: Yorkshire
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Only looks like a disaster tourist
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: above 7,000 feet
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I wonder how they define a person.
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
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