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Two people reproduced 7 billion people.
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RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people.
(February 12, 2013 at 6:50 pm)John V Wrote: Six words: each line is a separate generation.

For example, the second line is nine. That's 3+3+3, the three surviving children of each of the three initial couples. The parents are not included in that number. We're accounting for death.

Three children per couple seems reasonable, but let's lower it. Set the growth to just 10%. Now you hit 7 billion in the 293rd generation. If a generation is 20 years, that's 5,860 years, and we're not even building in the effect of the early long life spans.

It just doesn't take that long.

Are you taking into account divine murder, infertility, disease and plagues, death in infancy and childhood (kind of a big deal in the past!) the limited life expectancy before the modern era, war, and the fact that some people just don't want to have kids? Not to mention homosexuality, or the fact that people just don't pair up in neat little rows like you're expecting, nor do they spit out the requisite number of kids?

Or hey, how about the crazy fact that all of this still leads back to an incestuous gangbang between apparent immortals six thousand years ago? That not striking anyone as a bit impossible?
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Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Phish - February 12, 2013 at 5:57 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Nine - February 12, 2013 at 6:04 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Baalzebutt - February 12, 2013 at 6:07 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by WitchSabrina - February 12, 2013 at 6:10 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Baalzebutt - February 12, 2013 at 6:18 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Phish - February 12, 2013 at 6:20 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by WitchSabrina - February 12, 2013 at 6:35 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by ThomM - February 16, 2013 at 2:20 am
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Aegrus - February 12, 2013 at 6:12 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Phish - February 12, 2013 at 6:12 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Napoléon - February 12, 2013 at 7:24 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Psykhronic - February 12, 2013 at 6:05 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 12, 2013 at 6:30 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Baalzebutt - February 12, 2013 at 6:38 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Darkstar - February 12, 2013 at 6:45 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Baalzebutt - February 12, 2013 at 6:48 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by WitchSabrina - February 12, 2013 at 6:51 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 12, 2013 at 6:50 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Esquilax - February 12, 2013 at 6:55 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 12, 2013 at 7:01 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Esquilax - February 12, 2013 at 7:21 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 12, 2013 at 7:25 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Esquilax - February 12, 2013 at 7:33 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 12, 2013 at 7:40 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Esquilax - February 12, 2013 at 7:52 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 12, 2013 at 7:55 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Esquilax - February 12, 2013 at 8:00 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Aegrus - February 12, 2013 at 7:27 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by festive1 - February 12, 2013 at 9:49 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 13, 2013 at 8:24 am
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by festive1 - February 13, 2013 at 10:52 am
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 13, 2013 at 1:18 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Ryantology - February 13, 2013 at 3:02 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 13, 2013 at 3:15 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by festive1 - February 13, 2013 at 4:25 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 13, 2013 at 4:54 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Esquilax - February 13, 2013 at 7:30 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 13, 2013 at 8:08 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Esquilax - February 13, 2013 at 8:35 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 14, 2013 at 8:45 am
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Esquilax - February 14, 2013 at 9:58 am
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Esquilax - February 12, 2013 at 6:48 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Ryantology - February 12, 2013 at 7:11 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Minimalist - February 12, 2013 at 7:16 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Anomalocaris - February 12, 2013 at 8:13 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Ryantology - February 12, 2013 at 10:05 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Justtristo - February 12, 2013 at 11:05 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by catfish - February 13, 2013 at 2:03 am
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Justtristo - February 13, 2013 at 11:42 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Drich - February 13, 2013 at 10:52 am
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by festive1 - February 13, 2013 at 2:03 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Zone - February 13, 2013 at 3:35 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Ryantology - February 13, 2013 at 5:10 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 13, 2013 at 5:23 pm
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - February 14, 2013 at 10:49 am
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by Esquilax - February 14, 2013 at 11:22 am
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by EGross - February 20, 2013 at 6:21 am
RE: Two people reproduced 7 billion people. - by John V - April 10, 2013 at 5:30 pm

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