Fascinating.. and strange

Garp · 28-03-2008, 10:57

http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php

I've just watched that for a couple of minutes and had to override a compulsion to sit there just watching the various numbers rise. Quite cool, but weird at the same time. Especially if you sit there watching the death numbers rise and the particulars. For a bit I started imagining people dying in those ways.

Desmo · 28-03-2008, 11:06

See what you mean. It's so hard to stop watching the numbers just go up and up.

Will · 28-03-2008, 16:05

It's not entirely accurate though is it? I mean surely for all stuff created there is stuff absorbed/disolved in othe statistics no? I know a lot of it is a projection and using figures from the past - but surely it can't be as alarming as it looks? Scary **** if it is relatively accurate!

Nutcase · 29-03-2008, 00:19

Most interesting!

Is it just me or does the cars produced number seem waaaaay too slow?

goldilocks · 29-03-2008, 11:38

maybe it just seems shocking to me because of my viewpoint on the matter - but the number of abortions seems extraordinarily high.
just think how much faster the total population would be growing if all of these women decided to keep their babies

Haly · 29-03-2008, 11:41

I feel so insignificant!

28-03-2008, 10:57	#1
Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	Fascinating.. and strange http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php I've just watched that for a couple of minutes and had to override a compulsion to sit there just watching the various numbers rise. Quite cool, but weird at the same time. Especially if you sit there watching the death numbers rise and the particulars. For a bit I started imagining people dying in those ways. __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?

28-03-2008, 11:06	#2
Desmo The Last Airbender Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Pigmopad Posts: 11,915	See what you mean. It's so hard to stop watching the numbers just go up and up. __________________

28-03-2008, 16:05	#3
Will BBx woz 'ere :P Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 2,147,487,208	It's not entirely accurate though is it? I mean surely for all stuff created there is stuff absorbed/disolved in othe statistics no? I know a lot of it is a projection and using figures from the past - but surely it can't be as alarming as it looks? Scary ** if it is relatively accurate! __________________ No No!**

29-03-2008, 11:41	#6
Haly Do you want to hide in my box? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 14,941	I feel so insignificant! __________________ Halycopter

29-03-2008, 00:19	#4
Nutcase Moonshine Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Chelmsford, innit! Posts: 3,979	Most interesting! Is it just me or does the cars produced number seem waaaaay too slow?

29-03-2008, 11:38	#5
goldilocks Abandoned Ship Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 335	maybe it just seems shocking to me because of my viewpoint on the matter - but the number of abortions seems extraordinarily high. just think how much faster the total population would be growing if all of these women decided to keep their babies