RE: How Many People Would Have To Die?
April 6, 2015 at 10:26 am
(This post was last modified: April 6, 2015 at 10:30 am by Nope.)
(April 6, 2015 at 10:18 am)TRJF Wrote: Let's do a "napkin calculation." This can get us in the right range, give or take an order of magnitude.
Each human has, what, 6 liters or so of blood? Let's say this is 1 cubic foot (guessing based on the size of 2-liter and gallon bottles).
Let's say the flow of blood is like a stream (that is, bound on the edges), because if we just have a 200-mile-wide ocean of blood, we're all screwed (see, e.g., Blood Ocean, starring Dethklok). We'll call a horse's bridle 4 feet off the ground, and we'll say our stream is as high as it is deep. A weird stream, but, mysterious ways, right? We're just trying to simplify the calculations.
So, 1 foot of stream is going to be 4 feet wide and 4 feet high, meaning 16 cubic feet of blood. That's 16 people. Since there are 5,280 feet in a mile, we get about 84,000 people for one mile of stream (assuming everyone's completely exsanguinated, which seems very difficult to accomplish). 200 miles of stream equals, well... 16.4 million people, a little under the population of the Netherlands. This is, of course, for a tiny, odd, square-shaped stream.
If we figure the flow is more natural - that is, maybe, 4 feet high in the middle and 20 feet wide, tapering off to the edges, well, that multiplies things by 2.5, putting us up around 41 million. That's, roughly, Ukraine.
. 41 million. Damn.
Some of my Christian friends get very giddy over the idea that Jesus will return. When I ask them about the suffering that Jesus' return is supposed to cause their answer is basically, as long as they are among the winners, to hell with the losers
For a so called peaceful religion, Christianity really likes images with blood and suffering.
(April 6, 2015 at 10:23 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I'd think if anyone has a press capable of total exsanguination, it would be God.
It's not like he would be stuck with the Chinese knockoff brand at WalMart . . . .
Yes, he wouldn't want the press to break half way through the process. He has got to go with the angel made blood press. Afterwards, Jesus can turn all that blood into wine and they can party.
I am imagining a meme with a picture of angels building the ultimate press for god but I don't know what the caption would be.
