Today is apparently the day that the seven BILLIONTH human will be born on this planet.
Apparently 1000 years ago, there were 300 million people in the entire world. That is roughly the population of the USA at present. Due to inventions in medicine, better food more people survived to reproduce, and here we have the current population.
My question is this, how much does the earth weigh? Wikipedia says 6.585 x 10 to the 21st power. Oh and I am sure we do pick up a few tons from meteor impacts on the surface, eh? Just a thought.
Gulp, given that nothing comes from nothing uh unless you live in the Quantum universe, do 7 billion people make the planet heavier? I think there is a law of physics something like the conservation of energy and matter that covers this.
I'm thinking we need a plague before we consume everything and the planet is reduced a pile of dust and a few surviving microbes.
A few years ago one of my roomies had a very nice picture hanging in the living room it was a landscape of the seashore, mountains, forest etc...until you walk up to and take a closer look, everything was covered with people...EVERYTHING.
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The weight of the earth was given in metric tons, which is way heavier than other tons. So does this effect the gravity well, do things fall faster? Inquiring minds want to know...yawn.
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