The living will outnumber the Dead. When??

[rune_maniac]

I have heard a puzziling puzzle yesterday it goes like this.
'When will the living outnuber the dead and has it all ready happened???'

What do you think ??

 

[Llama]

Depends. How many people have died?
We've had an almost exponential increase in population in the last few hundred years, it isn't hard to imagine.

 

[rune_maniac]

Thank you for that reply and the answer to your question is every one who was born 200 years ago and before are dead.

 

[Llama]

I still say it could happen, dammit

 

[leib10]

I'm sure it could. If we could measure it, I'd say we'd see it in a couple centuries at most.

 

[cheddarrr]

i bet well eat up all our resources by then. you can only have so many critters eatin outta the same field before it is all gone......

 

[Qhartb]

Of course it's already happened. Whether you're religious or not, you probably believe that there was a time when there were no humans, followed by a time when there were humans (if "human" is well-defined). The earliest humans existed in a time when the living outnumbered the dead.

As for when it might happen again: I just did some quick calculus, modeling the population as a general exponential (c*b^x). Interestingly, when trying to find the instant in time when the living and dead would have equal population, the variable I was trying to solve for dropped out, and the equation ended up being dependent only on life expectancy. My conclusion from this is that if the dead outnumber the living now, the living cannot catch up without faster than exponential growth (which ain't gonna happen).

For those wanting to see the nitty-gritty, my model was as follows: p(t) = c*b^t. Solve integral(p(t) dt, t=-infinity...a)=integral(p(t) dt, t=a...a+l), where t is time, a is the instant in time dividing the living from the dead, and l is the length of life.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

"Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living." -Arthur C. Clarke

30 to 1? That'll take a while...

 

[Darkside55]

I don't know, but supposedly when we get to ten or twelve billion people, deaths will match the number of births per year, and the population will remain constant.

 

[NeptuneUK]

Therefore there will be an ever increasing number of dead people and stable number of living.
Of course there are more dead people than living.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Seems to me more people die every day than are born.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Seems to me more people die every day than are born.

If that was true, the population of the world would be dropping every day.

 

[Sulkdodds]

At the end of the world when the Rapture comes.

It's an evangelical riddle, isn't it?

 

[Lucid]

Never.

 

[The Monkey]

I think more people have already died than ware currently alive.

 

[Baal]

I've heard a statistic that states 10% of all humans who have ever been alive, are alive today.

meh

 

[Kula Meenur]

I have heard a puzziling puzzle yesterday it goes like this.
'When will the living outnuber the dead and has it all ready happened???'

What do you think ??

THIS IS CONFUSING THE SHIT OUTTA ME!!!


Answer or gtfo

 

[AntiAnto]

Never

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=09E07C6F-E7F2-99DF-3AD087F0DA77D94F

 

[Robbo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Historical_figures
World population has been growing pretty quickly, I think it could happen some time in the future. But thats a long long way away.

 

[Tyguy]

wont ever happen

 

[Evo]

How many people have ever died?

BILLIONS!

Human race has been around for thousands of years (even though worlds population was much smaller thousands of years ago) so makes sense that total dead > total living

 

[The Monkey]

Never

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=09E07C6F-E7F2-99DF-3AD087F0DA77D94F

End of debate.

 

[delusional]

Everyone start making babies!!

 

[NeptuneUK]

End of debate.

God damn it! You know what happens when people bring logic and rational thought into a stupid discussion...

 

[Tyguy]

a black whole emerges

 

[NeptuneUK]

 

[Kamikazie]

As long as there's is war and disease it will never happen.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Ironic that people are the cause of war and disease.

 

[Baratos]

Ironic that people are the cause of war and disease.

It makes sense when you think about it:

"Wow Bob, there are so many people nobody has enough food! What should we do?"
"You try shootin a few of em yet?"
"....I was thinking of birth control, but your idea sounds nice too."

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

I make sense when you think about me. =)

 

[Kula Meenur]

Da

Originally Posted by AntiAnto
Never

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?art...D087F0DA77D94F

sounds about right

 

[Narvi]

Some time after we achieve immortality. Without a birth control plan.

 

[Azner]

When zombies arrive, that is if you consider zombies as living.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Right now, if reincarnation is real. D:

 

[atomic_banana]

The living have already out numbered the dead in th Garden of Eden living (2) Dead (0)