Silliness Quiz - Page 240

HomeInMyShoes · 08-16-2011, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by orlok

10 billion? I think I heard somewhere that there are more people alive now than have ever died.

10,000,000,001

Sorry, I thought I was on The Price is Right.

orlok · 08-16-2011, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by maianhvk

10 billions is way under the answers I have.

And where did you hear that, by the way? I can do some comparisons...

Don't remember. On the radio,I think. Mabe not true, though?

50 billion?

SneakySnake · 08-16-2011, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by orlok

10 billion? I think I heard somewhere that there are more people alive now than have ever died.

I think it was there are more people alive over the age of 65 than ever made past 65 that are dead!

I think.

27billion?

orlok · 08-16-2011, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by SneakySnake

I think it was there are more people alive over the age of 65 than ever made past 65 that are dead!

I think.

You may be right. I just found this quote from the population reference bureau site

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sometime back in the 1970s a now-forgotten writer made the statement that 75 percent of the people who had ever been born were alive at that moment.
This factoid has had a long shelf life, even though a bit of reflection would show how unlikely it is. For this "estimate" to be true would mean either that births in the 20th century far, far outnumbered those in the past or that there were an extraordinary number of extremely old people living in the 1970s.

...so it seems like it's not true.

30 billion?

SneakySnake · 08-16-2011, 07:49 PM

Now i remember..

More than half the people who ever lived past the age of 65 are alive today.

maianhvk · 08-16-2011, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

2^36?

The answer is just under 2^37, I think.

According to wikipedia, we have the answer as 100-115 billion.

According to other formula, I came to another answer as 57 billion.

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All this means that in the 200,000 years since Homo Sapiens took her first steps across the African plains, just 57 billion people have ever lived. Astonishingly that means over 12% of all the people ever born are walking the planet at this very moment. Or to put it another way: one in eight people who have ever been born are alive today.

Quote:

Originally Posted by orlok

You may be right. I just found this quote from the population reference bureau site

...so it seems like it's not true.

Yeah it's not true.

Quote:

In the 1970s there was a belief that 75% of all the people who had ever lived were alive in the 1970s, which would have put the total number of people who ever lived as of the 1970s as less than the number of people alive today. This view was eventually debunked.

So, new question is, who's up next

Orlok (50 billion) or HomeInMyShoes (2^36)?

orlok · 08-17-2011, 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by maianhvk

So, new question is, who's up next

Orlok (50 billion) or HomeInMyShoes (2^36)?

Well if the answer is just under 2^37, and HomeInMyShoes said 2^36, then it has to be him.

HomeInMyShoes · 08-17-2011, 07:27 AM

Okay, an easy one.

Name all the landlocked countries in South America.

poohbear_nc · 08-17-2011, 08:13 AM

Bolivia?

Stitchawl · 08-17-2011, 08:44 AM

... and Paraguay

Stitchawl

HomeInMyShoes · 08-17-2011, 09:00 AM

Well, one of you gets to pick. as that's all of them. First one to post gets to ask the next question.

Bolivia and Paraguay.

Stitchawl · 08-17-2011, 08:10 PM

Here's one;

The 'Building Blocks' of DNA are Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thiamine.
What is different about RNA? One of these 'blocks' changes. Which one, and what replaces it?

Stitchawl

poohbear_nc · 08-17-2011, 08:16 PM

Uracil instead of Thymine

Stitchawl · 08-17-2011, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Uracil instead of Thymine

Wow! Dr.Pooh slams a hommer on his first swing!

Gives us another Dr.bear!

Stitchawl

poohbear_nc · 08-17-2011, 08:27 PM

I loved biochemistry classes! And apparently still remember a lot too! We even had plastic "building blocks" to create our own DNA & RNA strands.

OK:

Watson, Crick, and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in 1962 for deducing the double helix structure of DNA based on their interpretations of X-ray diffraction images, 4 years after the death of the person who actually made the X-ray images. Who was the forgotten 4th researcher who got left off the Nobel Prize award list?
[Nobel rules of the time allowed only living recipients.]

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08-16-2011, 07:49 PM	#3590
SneakySnake I'm watching you! Posts: 6,113 Karma: 22344652 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis	Now i remember.. More than half the people who ever lived past the age of 65 are alive today.

08-17-2011, 07:27 AM	#3593
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	Okay, an easy one. Name all the landlocked countries in South America.

08-17-2011, 08:13 AM	#3594
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,740 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Bolivia?

08-17-2011, 08:44 AM	#3595
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	... and Paraguay Stitchawl

08-17-2011, 09:00 AM	#3596
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	Well, one of you gets to pick. as that's all of them. First one to post gets to ask the next question. Bolivia and Paraguay.

08-17-2011, 08:10 PM	#3597
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	Here's one; The 'Building Blocks' of DNA are Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thiamine. What is different about RNA? One of these 'blocks' changes. Which one, and what replaces it? Stitchawl

08-17-2011, 08:16 PM	#3598
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,740 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Uracil instead of Thymine

08-17-2011, 08:27 PM	#3600
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,740 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	I loved biochemistry classes! And apparently still remember a lot too! We even had plastic "building blocks" to create our own DNA & RNA strands. OK: Watson, Crick, and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in 1962 for deducing the double helix structure of DNA based on their interpretations of X-ray diffraction images, 4 years after the death of the person who actually made the X-ray images. Who was the forgotten 4th researcher who got left off the Nobel Prize award list? [Nobel rules of the time allowed only living recipients.]

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