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Subject: Something interesting to consider....
Original Message Date: 08-Sep-05 @ 01:17 AM - Something interesting to consider....
Exponential growth can be explained by an analogy.
Take a chess board, 64 x 64 squares. Say you put a grain of rice on the first square, on the second square you put 2 grains of rice, on the third square 4, on the fourth 8, on the fifth 16, on the sixth 32...and so on. That is exponential growth. By the time you got to the 64th square you would have to have enough rice that would take the entire worlds rice generating countries decades to produce.
Bacteria breeds exponentially. Just like cells divide exponentially.
However there are restrictions that can hamper growth, lack of food, disease and so on...
Common bacteria strands will split and multiply every 15 minutes. If a strand of bacteria did not have any restrictions within a day one strand of bacteria would grow exponentially to have the same mass as mount everest, within the next day the mass of the earth... and so on.
Obviously this does not happen, due to the aforementioned restrictions.
Now look at the human races growth rate. Currently multiplying at an exponential rate.
Now look at the third world. Look at Africa. Look at the charity adverts on TV that tell you that 30,000 kids in Africa die each day due to disease and lack of food.
Its nature exercising control. Taking measures to ensure balance.
Theres no point to this post. Just thought it was interesting.
Message 11/12 10-Sep-05 @ 12:07 PM - RE: Something interesting to consider....
Message 12/12 10-Sep-05 @ 02:49 PM - RE: Something interesting to consider....
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
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