> > Of course,at this point, no matter what everyone says about overcrowding, if you put the entire population of the world into texas, each person would have their own acre. an ACRE. that means my family would have a nice comfortable, um, 8 acres! woohoo! so. i don't know. i think that contradicts your point. sorry.
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> No way! Texas has 261,914 square miles of land. That's equal to 167,625,000 acres. According to the United Nations, there will be 6 billion people on Earth by October of this year (and many people think that the United Nations has undercounted, perhaps by as much as one fifth). This means that there would be 36 people per acre; rather, each person would get a bit less than 0.03 acres.
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> 0.03 acres is about equal to 120 square metres, about enough room for a small house. (But there would be no room for streets, parks, industries, schools, libraries....uggggh...)

Oddly enough, I was having a conversation about a week ago with a friend about putting the entire population of the world in Malaysia. Of course, this conversation turned more to aliens coming down, abducting all the people, arranging them into a human pyramid, and testing their theories about the effects that would have on the Earth's orbit.

If Luisa were here, she'd probably like to know that that was Fred. :-}

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