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quakerboy

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19. Gotta love numbers

Fri Mar 30, 2012, 02:00 PM

Mar 2012

Wikipedia says 7.004 billion people. Figure that people are at least 2x1.5 feet, when standing up, so 3 sf/ person. 21 billion square feet.

A square mile holds 27,878,400 square feet. Jacksonville has 767 square miles. 21 billion square feet.

Technically, she is correct. If you tore out all the buildings, and no one were larger than average or had to sit down. But I am pretty sure that no fire marshal would approve Jacksonville for 7 billion occupancy.

I wonder if that density of people would result in people in the center suffocating, even if it were all open air.

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