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mre · Senior Member

Discussion #1: Miniature World Project

Tyler Allain · Veteran Member

Im not entirley sure that you could really condense the population of the world into an accurate representation with only 100 people in it. That seems a little far fetched to me. Since they mentioned 1 person has aids... is it a he/she?...is this person religious or non? While i do question how exactly accurate this could be, (and i guess im just nit picking here) it does give a person a deeper perspective on the world and how easy it is to forget just how fortunate we are just to have food to eat and water to drink. Forget about cars, computers, ipods, and all the other technological equipment we have access to. Just to be healthy and safe is something some can only dream of. Its sad. Also the stat in the video that said 6 people would control 59% of the wealth really shocked me. I wonder who would be included in those 6 people? I wish the video went a little bit deeper than just presenting all of these numbers to you, but i suppose the point is to leave all of the pondering to the viewer.

-- Edited by Tyler Allain on Thursday 19th of March 2009 10:59:08 PM

Moussa · Veteran Member

I agree with what he says, since you won't ever get perfect numbers when trying to condense the human population of somewhere near 6 to 7 billion to a mear hundred. You'll end up with for example: 3. 5 person have xxx. which of course doesn't make sense.

as to his point about the aids, and being he/she, religious..etc then it would be important to say that this is just a condensation concerning certain topics. If we wanted to say every single kind of speciality concerning all people, it would be endless. Like the number of people living on earth who have AIDS, Women, living in Argentina, with 1 husband and 4 kids, and green eyes..etc. We could get that specific, BUT i'm not willing to watch a 10 hour click about a 'miniature' earth.

something that stuck out to me was the religious numbers shown.