Post by ResLight on Apr 24, 2015 19:29:29 GMT -5
One has given an estimate that there has been approximately 110 billion people who have ever lived. Where will all these live?
While the figure given (110 billion) as an estimate of how many people have ever lived, I believe, is highly exaggerated, will there be enough room for all of the people to live on earth?
The State of Texas, USA, contains two hundred and thirty-seven thousand square miles (237,000 sq. mi.). There are twenty-seven million eight hundred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred square feet in a mile, and therefore, six trillion six hundred and seven billion one hundred and eighty million hundred thousand (6,607,180,800,000) square feet in Texas. Allowing ten square feet as the surface covered by each dead body, we find that Texas, as a cemetery, would at this rate hold six hundred and sixty billion seven hundred and eighteen million and eighty thousand (660,718,080,000) bodies, many times more than the proposed estimate of the numbers of our race who have lived on the earth.
A person standing occupies about one and two-thirds square feet of space. At this rate the 2015 population of the earth (7,000,000,000) could stand on an area much less than that of the city of Jacksonville, (Florida, USA) or of Oklahoma City. And the country of Ireland (area, thirty-two thousand square miles) would furnish standing room for many times the number of people who have ever lived on earth, even at the exaggerated estimate.
Today there is approximately 15,769,600,000 livable land acres. (excluding desert land, mountainous and the polar regions).
Applying this to the proposed number of 110 billion, this would mean that if this land was divided up amongst these imaged 110 billion people, each would have close to 15% of acre of land, or about 6534 square feet.
However, the Bible indicates that land areas that are now uninhabitable will become inhabitable, which further indicates that the earth will undergo a tremendous climate change, so that things will be much different than they are now. Thus, as compared to the livable regions that exist today, there may be as much as five times more livable area once the earth has been changed and renewed.
Of course, God has the entire unending universe into which he could put people.
While the figure given (110 billion) as an estimate of how many people have ever lived, I believe, is highly exaggerated, will there be enough room for all of the people to live on earth?
The State of Texas, USA, contains two hundred and thirty-seven thousand square miles (237,000 sq. mi.). There are twenty-seven million eight hundred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred square feet in a mile, and therefore, six trillion six hundred and seven billion one hundred and eighty million hundred thousand (6,607,180,800,000) square feet in Texas. Allowing ten square feet as the surface covered by each dead body, we find that Texas, as a cemetery, would at this rate hold six hundred and sixty billion seven hundred and eighteen million and eighty thousand (660,718,080,000) bodies, many times more than the proposed estimate of the numbers of our race who have lived on the earth.
A person standing occupies about one and two-thirds square feet of space. At this rate the 2015 population of the earth (7,000,000,000) could stand on an area much less than that of the city of Jacksonville, (Florida, USA) or of Oklahoma City. And the country of Ireland (area, thirty-two thousand square miles) would furnish standing room for many times the number of people who have ever lived on earth, even at the exaggerated estimate.
Today there is approximately 15,769,600,000 livable land acres. (excluding desert land, mountainous and the polar regions).
Applying this to the proposed number of 110 billion, this would mean that if this land was divided up amongst these imaged 110 billion people, each would have close to 15% of acre of land, or about 6534 square feet.
However, the Bible indicates that land areas that are now uninhabitable will become inhabitable, which further indicates that the earth will undergo a tremendous climate change, so that things will be much different than they are now. Thus, as compared to the livable regions that exist today, there may be as much as five times more livable area once the earth has been changed and renewed.
Of course, God has the entire unending universe into which he could put people.
