How many people in the world are peeing right now?
So how often do I pee every day? Maybe 6 times? And we can say that I pee for 30 seconds at a time. If I represent the average person then that means that the average person spends 180 seconds, or 3 minutes a day peeing.
6 minutes is .1 hours, so 3 minutes is .05 hours. So .05/24 is the fraction of the day. This is 5/2400. I know that 1/25 is .04, so 1/250 is .004, and 1/2500 is .0004. So 5/2500 is .0004 * 5 = .002. That's as close as we need for an order of magnitude.
So if we assume that people are equally distributed across the globe (which is false) and that they pee at random intervals (also false) we see that .2% of the population is peeing at any given time. So we can multiply 6 billion * .002 or do 2 * 6 billion * .001 which is 2* 6 000 000 which is 12 000 000.
12 000 000 people are peeing right now!
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Gunther
Gunther stood on one foot, just like he had been instructed.
"Put your hand on your nose and say the alphabet backwards."
His task was already difficult enough, and it certainly didn't help that the alcohol in his stomach was making him nauseous. Gunther took a deep breath and put his hand on his nose. "The. Alphabet. Backwards," Gunther managed to say before he puked.
"Put your hand on your nose and say the alphabet backwards."
His task was already difficult enough, and it certainly didn't help that the alcohol in his stomach was making him nauseous. Gunther took a deep breath and put his hand on his nose. "The. Alphabet. Backwards," Gunther managed to say before he puked.
Felix
Said the toad, "My name is Felix. I am the son of Felix, and the father of Felix. I am born from my own death and have lived this life 10 thousand times over. I have seen you just as many times, and have said this to you just as many times, and after this life I will say all this to you just as many times again. Time is cyclic, and only through me can you find yourself in the next iteration."
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Thursday, February 1, 2007
B10 Sketch
The B10 model came fully equipped with sweat modules, but B9-10,000 did not—or else he would’ve been soaked. The B10 model also had auto-sensitive feedbacks that would have allowed it to detect the balance of the gun, and in which chamber the final bullet waited. B9 didn’t have this either. Even so, he had it narrowed down to two. He and the human had both taken two turns each, and now as he held the revolver to his own metallic head, he felt a sort of fear that the B10 model’s updated neural net would never be able to feel: the fear of being erased from existence
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Thursday, November 9, 2006
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