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How many people
Scale of some things
People seconds
Landmarks
[ Scale | Landmarks | Other ]

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you
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100you
101
102
103 birth / death /
104 growth in yr
105city small big city
106city mid earth pop US
107city big | US "unemployed" > 10 kyr ago
108US pop (×3) | US non-"white" (×1/2) 1-10 kyr ago Earth
109 1000-1960 CE
1010Earth pop (×0.6) now
1011 Total modern humans (last 40kyr) | Total Homo Sapiens

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Comments encouraged. - Mitchell N Charity <mcharity@lcs.mit.edu>