Posted by Larry Hoover on May 29, 2006, at 10:40:45
In reply to Most people are long dead » saturn, posted by pseudoname on May 29, 2006, at 10:28:19
> According to the Population Reference Bureau, there are at least 20 times more people in the earth than on it, so to speak. A lower estimate is that about 100 billion people have already passed on.
I thank you for correcting my/this error.
The death of a factoid is a time for celebration. The myth is revealed.
A factoid is one of those things everybody knows, but nobody has ever proven. "Common knowledge" can be wrong, as we see here.
I greatly value getting it right. Thanks again.
Lar
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