Re: Total number of humans in the past 150,000 years

On 13 Oct 2005 07:43:05 -0700, Brablo <gestureofrespect@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> i keep hearing that most of the humans who lived on earth lives on it
> right now!

"Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio
by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time,
roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth.
--- Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence
there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe,
the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this universe,
there shines a star." (from Arthur C. Clarke's foreword in _2001, A
Space Odyssey_, 1968)

By now it's down to sixteen ghosts.

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