information/figures that give you perspective

yuppies

Here's some I compiled myself (from wikipedia mostly!):

there are (hundreds) x (thousands) x (millions) of stars in ONE galaxy

there are probably more than (170) x (thousand) x (million) galaxies in the universe

the earth is 4.5 thousand million years old, and life began to form around 3.8 thousand million
years ago

last common ancestor of humans and chimps was between 5 and 7 million years ago

anatomically modern humans have been in existence on this tiny spec of dust floating in space
for about 200,000 years,
- 50,000 with full behavioural modernity, or 0.0013% of the history of life on earth
- 10,000 with agriculture, (about 400 generations ago) .. one quarter of one thousanth of one percent of the history
of life on earth
- 5,000 to 3,000 since the interesting history of civilisation etc. began

- in 100 million years, the earth will have been likely hit by a meteorite comparible to the one which killed off the dinosaurs
- the earth will be uninhabitable for life in about a 1000 million years when the seas start to boil over

human population approximations
- 70000 bc .. 15000? .. toba catastophe
- 10000 bc .. 1 million
- 8000 bc .. 5 million
- 3000 bc .. 25 million
- 500 bc .. 100 million
- 1 ad .. 200 million
- 1000 .. 310 million
- 1500 .. 458 million
- 1600 .. 580 million
- 1700 .. 682 million
- 1750 .. 791 million
- 1804 .. 1 billion
- 1927 .. 2 billion
- 1960 .. 3 billion
- 1974 .. 4 billion
- 1987 .. 5 billion
- 1999 .. 6 billion
- 2012 .. 7 billion

human are but one of over 8 million species currently on earth, not to mention the millions upon millions which existed in the past but are now extinct

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8CgDGhYKe8 this video is good too!

starbelgrade

There are nine million bicycles in Bejing. That's a fact.

Standard Toaster

Jedward are in fact two peoples.

CliffHuxtabel

yuppies wrote: »

last common ancestor of humans and chimps was between 5 and 7 million years ago

Although he made a comeback to be U.S. president from 2001-2009

The King of Moo

Currently active users
444 (192 members, 252 guests)... really makes you think...

c. 15 million: the number of children who die of starvation or issues related to severe undernourishment every year.
Compare that with obesity levels and it gets hard to understand humanity in some ways.

policarp

I for one know that my income is down from last year. . .

44leto

I was utterly staggered by this figure, from the series a history of musicals.

The musical "cat" has made 3 quarters of a billion and still going.

Those hit musicals are worth a fortune. More then most hit films.

Ficheall

44leto wrote: »

I was utterly staggered by this figure, from the series a history of musicals.

The musical "cat" has made 3 quarters of a billion and still going.

Those hit musicals are worth a fortune. More then most hit films.

You mean "Cats"?
I thought initially that you meant keyboard cat. I am less surprised at the musical thing.

El Weirdo

I have 2 bollocks.

/thread

Stained Class

Millions of flys eat sh1t.

Millions of people watch X Factor.

I don't plan to be one of those Millions though..

44leto

Stained Class wrote: »

Millions of flys eat sh1t.

Millions of people watch X Factor.

I don't plan to be one of those Millions though..

And Peter Bazalgate the leading creative figure in Endelmol who brought us shyte into our living room in the form of big brother Great Grandfather was Sir Joesef Bazalgate who designed and built the first municipal sewer system in the world, in London and who was largely responsible for getting shyte out of our living rooms.

RickRoll

I will walk 500 miles and I will walk 500 more just to be that man that walked a thousand miles.

Stained Class

44leto wrote: »

And Peter Bazalgate the leading creative figure in Endelmol who brought us shyte into our living room in the form of big brother Great Grandfather was Sir Joesef Bazalgate who designed and built the first municipal sewer system in the world, in London and who was largely responsible for getting shyte out of our living rooms.

No Sh1t!:D

Sindri

El Weirdo wrote: »

I have 2 bollocks.

/thread

The other day the animal doctor thought my dog had only 1!

He said the other hadn't descended, and it could be a sign of cancer.

He gave it another look, saying they can get lost up in the thigh!:eek:

After a good look, without wearing gloves I noticed he eventually found it.

I love that dog so much I'd donate him one of my testicles if he needed it.

Deus Ex Machina

Everything you've ever seen was derived primarily from two odourless, colourless gasses.

Mr. Manager

There are more people claiming the dole in this country than that live in Malta.

Potential-Monke

As of December 2011 there are 366,848,493 websites available on the www.

RickRoll

Potential-Monke wrote: »

As of December 2011 there are 366,848,493 websites available on the www.

Name them all so.

Hasmunch

39% of all statistics are made up source

Yakult

RickRoll wrote: »

Name them all so.

http://www.greatstatistics.com/domains.html

Sindri

Yakult wrote: »

http://www.greatstatistics.com/domains.html

Thank you for introducing me to naked-pussy.net.

There happens to be a riveting video called vagina fell out.

kraggy

Want some real perspective as to how small and insignificant we really are?

Prepare to be amazed

http://www.rosicross.com/.a/6a00d8341f5d0653ef0112796d1fb728a4-800wi

later12

We are spending €14,902,238,000 more than we take in from all revenue sources, and this doesn't include the cost of bailing out the banks. That's just what we're over spending on ourselves.

Excluding the cost of the bank recapitalisations and promissory notes, we are spending 138% of what we bring in from tax and other revenues.

This crisis is not all about the banks. The Irish economy is fundamentally unsound.

IM0

Potential-Monke wrote: »

As of December 2011 there are 366,848,493 websites available on the www.

of which only 69,000,000 are porn

Sindri

later10 wrote: »

We are spending €14,902,238,000 more than we take in from all revenue sources, and this doesn't include the cost of bailing out the banks. That's just what we're over spending on ourselves.

Excluding the cost of the bank recapitalisations and promissory notes, we are spending 138% of what we bring in from tax and other revenues.

This crisis is not all about the banks. The Irish economy is fundamentally unsound.

ah yeah it's a bit of a prick.

later12

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

There are more people claiming the dole in this country than that live in Malta.

More people on the live register, certainly, but not on the dole.

On every live register sheet that is released, the CSO write the same reminder "This is not a measure of unemployment" which the media consistently ignore.

CliffHuxtabel

kraggy wrote: »

Want some real perspective as to how small and insignificant we really are?

Prepare to be amazed

http://www.rosicross.com/.a/6a00d8341f5d0653ef0112796d1fb728a4-800wi

Awesome. Makes all the statistics on the economy look like trivial crap

MrStuffins

kraggy wrote: »

Want some real perspective as to how small and insignificant we really are?

Prepare to be amazed

http://www.rosicross.com/.a/6a00d8341f5d0653ef0112796d1fb728a4-800wi

How about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

ImpossibleDuck

kraggy wrote: »

Want some real perspective as to how small and insignificant we really are?

Prepare to be amazed

http://www.rosicross.com/.a/6a00d8341f5d0653ef0112796d1fb728a4-800wi

MrStuffins wrote: »

How about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

I also like this one

If you think you've got problems just look at that then re-evaluate how important said problems actually are.

Sindri

This gives you real perspective.

And this.

ImpossibleDuck

Sindri wrote: »

This gives you real perspective.

And this.

Not sure if I agree with the 2nd one. It's the fact that you have two eyes, is it not? Depth perception and all that jazz? I believe so.

Sindri

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

Not sure if I agree with the 2nd one. It's the fact that you have two eyes, is it not? Depth perception and all that jazz? I believe so.

Yeah but I have glasses and I cannot see into the distance all that well, hence depth, hence perception, hence glasses. Cone of perception and all that jazz.

ImpossibleDuck

Sindri wrote: »

Yeah but I have glasses and I cannot see into the distance all that well, hence depth, hence perception, hence glasses. Cone of perception and all that jazz,

Mhmmm ok. I'll take your word for it

Standard Toaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U

danniemcq

I have a heap of them info pics from various sites around the web that i'll upload later to a fileserve account.

You know the ones that show how things work/size of things compared to others and i guess various lifehacker things.

I'll throw up a link when i get back from work on the thread but if anyone wants them and is in danger of forgetting to check back if they send me a PM i'll reply to you with a link.

i have a feeling it will be a rather large zip/rar file though! (100mb ish)

yuppies

http://www.worldometers.info/

http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/WorldPop2300final.pdf

^ this is an interesting document.. especially table a14 and a15 at the end about predictions for future life expectancies... whether they'll be correct or not is another thing!