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10. To all of the above
Mon Feb 2, 2015, 03:40 PM
Feb 2015

First off, I'm not the bad guy. I was merely pointing out some sobering facts about our inability to understand Exponential Function. Google it if you're unfamiliar. Someone put a really good set of videos, as series of eight, of Albert Bartlett discussing the concept. You'll like it, trust me.

Maybe you've heard about this mathematical concept or maybe you haven't, but if you clicked the Worldmeters link, looked at the human population clock, AND did some math on time and population, your senses might get shocked.

If you're the type of person that thinks in the scale of the BC/AD Gregorian calender, understands that this is the year 2015 AD and that all of the recorded human history can be summed up over thousands of years, you might be a little disheartened to realize that something has got to give here soon.

Call me names, make be the bad guy, whatever, but you're going to have to deal with the reality of the numbers eventually.




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