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13352588, How many people have died?
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Fri Oct-18-19 01:14 PM
That's the question.
Guesstimate.
How would you even go about trying to answer that question?
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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson
"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"
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13352604, RE: How many people have died?
Posted by lsymone, Fri Oct-18-19 01:42 PM
There's a World Death Clock. It currently counts up when ppl are dead or dying. It averages 56 million deaths per year.
I once work as a mortician, and found that the weekends and Mondays were the busiest for me. Why Mondays, because ppl hate work and school.
You can actually call the morgue in your city and they can give you an average count of people dead in your town or city. Or they could have it posted on the website hidden somewhere.
Life is fragile and ppl die every second.
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13352612, "More people are alive now than have ever died..."
Posted by Marbles, Fri Oct-18-19 02:20 PM
I'm paraphrasing and may not be stating it properly but I heard that somewhere a while back. I didn't think of it again until this post so I did a little digging.
https://www.machinedesign.com/blog/do-people-living-today-outnumber-all-those-who-have-died-hint-no-0
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13352617, I think the article says the opposite.
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Fri Oct-18-19 03:08 PM
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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson
"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"
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13352621, Oh yeah, it's definitely not true...
Posted by Marbles, Fri Oct-18-19 03:18 PM
But I was intrigued by the idea and then blown away at how they figured it out. That kind of thing is way over my head.
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13352613, Probably about 25 billion, ever.
Posted by Teknontheou, Fri Oct-18-19 02:22 PM
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13352615, a few that I've known. RIP.
Posted by PG, Fri Oct-18-19 02:45 PM
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13352619, Sounds like a job interview question
Posted by PimpTrickGangstaClik, Fri Oct-18-19 03:16 PM
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13352625, Ha yea it does. Like "I'm more interested in how you *approach* ...
Posted by Brew, Fri Oct-18-19 03:26 PM
... the question than how you answer it."
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13353003, a lot. - 21 savage nm
Posted by Binlahab, Tue Oct-22-19 07:54 PM
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13353255, i chuckled
Posted by BrooklynWHAT, Thu Oct-24-19 02:31 PM
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13353056, 8.
Posted by squeeg, Wed Oct-23-19 10:21 AM
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13353061, More than are living
Posted by Musa, Wed Oct-23-19 11:02 AM
2 parents
4 grand parents
8 great grands
16 great great grands
32 great great great
64 great great great great
128 great great great great
etc etc etc
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13353099, I agree more than are living but that’s not a good model
Posted by rob, Wed Oct-23-19 02:34 PM
People alive have shared ancestors, and more likely to have shared ancestors as you go back.
I think the most interesting part of the question would be where you would decide the cut off was for first humans. Even though there were way less people around at any given time in the deep past, you can fit so many life times into a hundred thousand years.
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13353136, How far back are we cosidering people as 'people' ?
Posted by flipnile, Thu Oct-24-19 08:01 AM
homo erectus? Even further?
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13353171, 108 Billion
Posted by WarriorPoet415, Thu Oct-24-19 11:07 AM
according to this:
https://www.prb.org/howmanypeoplehaveeverlivedonearth/
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"To Each His Reach"
but.....
Fuck aliens.
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13353203, Me: Well if you gather all the census records and historical population estimates
Posted by sectachrome86, Thu Oct-24-19 11:58 AM
This guy: *googles "how many people have died" *
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13353206, Well, technically, according to that, 101.5 billion have *died*.
Posted by Brew, Thu Oct-24-19 12:05 PM
The 108 billion you reference is how many humans have ever inhabited earth, including 7.5B of us currently still living.
Just, you know, for accuracy's sake.
This obviously doesn't take aliens into account ......
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13353210, ...but trancendentally we all die, so for all in tents and porpoises
Posted by WarriorPoet415, Thu Oct-24-19 12:08 PM
I'mma call it a wash
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"To Each His Reach"
but.....
Fuck aliens.
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13353268, LOL.
Posted by Brew, Thu Oct-24-19 03:22 PM
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13353515, pretty much all of'em
Posted by kayru99, Fri Oct-25-19 06:36 PM
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13366901, There’s a recent Radiolab about this
Posted by MEAT, Wed Feb-12-20 04:57 PM
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13366936, yep! I listened to it.
Posted by SuiteLady, Wed Feb-12-20 09:22 PM
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13366938, all the people.
Posted by My_SP1200_Broken_Again, Wed Feb-12-20 10:12 PM
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