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Post by psammophilous on Jul 23, 2024 17:11:42 GMT
Did you know that most people dying today have never died before...
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Post by RLDavies on Jul 24, 2024 14:30:59 GMT
Well, that depends on whether you believe in reincarnation.
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Post by barbados on Jul 24, 2024 17:18:33 GMT
More than most people, up until October 31st 2000 all those that either were alive or had been alive were on earth.
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Post by crissdee on Jul 24, 2024 17:36:39 GMT
Unless you believe in the "lost cosmonauts" theory....
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Post by jenny on Jul 24, 2024 23:13:42 GMT
More than most people, up until October 31st 2000 all those that either were alive or had been alive were on earth. Depends what you mean by 'people' and whether we can call intelligent lifeforms elsewhere in the multiverse people. But I'll give you that the only ones we actually know about are on earth.
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Post by suze on Jul 24, 2024 23:21:57 GMT
When I was a kid, my father used to claim that more than half of the people who had ever lived were still living, such had been the growth in world population in the twentieth century.
As far as I can tell, this is not so. There are people who have spent years on the question, and they reckon that in fact, the current population of the world is about 7% of the total number of humans there have ever been. Maybe it was a bit more than 7% fifty or so years ago, but the grandchildren of "Adam and Eve" were probably the last people who could genuinely make the claim.
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Post by tetsabb on Jul 25, 2024 11:15:32 GMT
suze begs the question of when we can define 'humanity' beginning. I saw an article recently (which, of course, I cannot now find) that suggests recent findings and research that propse that humans might have been using a language much earlier than the generally accepted 70,000 years or so ago.
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Post by alexanderhoward on Jul 27, 2024 14:11:10 GMT
And when the next generation after them started to speak too, their fathers' despaired of the way they were mutilating the language.
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Post by tetsabb on Jul 27, 2024 15:47:59 GMT
And when the next generation after them started to speak too, their fathers' despaired of the way they were mutilating the language. So did their mothers, innit?
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Post by alexanderhoward on Jul 31, 2024 11:03:43 GMT
Unless you believe in the "lost cosmonauts" theory.... I read (somewhere) that a minister in Narendra Modi's cabinet has asserted that NASA are involved in a massive cover-up. He says that when the Apollo missions landed on the Moon they reported that it was empty but they must have seen the remains of the battles fought on the Moon recorded in the Mahabharata, and have suppressed the information. I have not been able to find a source for that. Googling just comes up with even more hare-brained Moon-landing conspiracies and I do not want them on my search history!
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Post by jenny on Jul 31, 2024 14:47:22 GMT
If there are Americans dumb enough to believe Moon-landing conspiracies (and there are) I can imagine that in a country as populous as India you might find another person who would do so.
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Post by Bondee on Jul 31, 2024 20:04:18 GMT
Did you know that most people who are bitten by sharks are wet at the time.
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