Of course they could all fit - no calculations needed. It's all in how high you're willing to stack the bodies.
They would all fit on the isle of Wight?
by purrpurr 19 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Simon
"Fitting inside of something" is very different than "living". Just ask a sardine:
The real challenge with any large population is the infrastructures for the mass transportation of goods - food !
This is a fantastic article covering all the different permutation of world populations fitting into spaces:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/03/7-3-billion-people-one-building.html
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rebel8
I heard the Texas one from the dubs.
Basically, there was some secular statement like this in the 70s or 80s and the dubs co-opted (read: misconstrued) it to "prove" resurrection to Earth would be totally plausible.
This was accompanied by a small movement at the time to "green the desert". The belief was that you could pump water into the desert, plant trees, and soon it would no longer be the desert. Claims were made that the desert was so fertile that crops could grow overnight. This was one of many magic tricks jehoopla would perform after we were done burying the bodies of all the dead non-jws.
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Bungi Bill
rebel8
This was accompanied by a small movement at the time to "green the desert". The belief was that you could pump water into the desert, plant trees, and soon it would no longer be the desert. Claims were made that the desert was so fertile that crops could grow overnight.
It is not just the JWs that have come up with the "irrigating the deserts" story, either. I can remember once reading a Plain Truth magazine, in which the author (presumably H.W. Armstrong) made the claim that there are large bodies of water trapped in the ground beneath all the world's deserts - and thereby inferring that irrigation should not be much of a difficulty.
Presumably, he got that idea from Australia's Great Artesian Basin, and then extrapolated this onto all other arid regions in the world. Even much of the water in the GAB is toxic. At the site I worked at on the edge of the desert in South Australia, the artesian water was seven times as saline as seawater. To make it in any way usable required a three-stage filtration process (including Reverse Osmosis filtration). They might as well have just said that, as most of the earth's surface is covered by oceans, irrigation / water supply should never be an issue!
Bill
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Finkelstein
The answer I was told is that the GB had calculated that all the people who have ever lived could all fit on to the isle of Wight !
If people are going to believe in the ancient mythology of the bible and its entailing stories , then can very well believe in all what gets espoused by the Watchtower leaders.
As a matter of fact they want to reach people who would believe in their kind of nonsense, although one has to abandon rational and intellectual honesty in the process.
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Village Idiot
Bungi Bill:
"I can remember once reading a Plain Truth magazine, in which the author (presumably H.W. Armstrong) made the claim that there are large bodies of water trapped in the ground beneath all the world's deserts - and thereby inferring that irrigation should not be much of a difficulty."
He's right, those deserts have a huge amount of water in their aquifers:
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umbertoecho
Only if Jimy Hendrix was playing. Otherwise there would not be enough nice houses. It would be tent land and boy is it bloody cold.
That one was worth it.
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Bungi Bill
He's right, those deserts have a huge amount of water in their aquifers:
Whether or not, though, there is enough water there to irrigate the entire expanse of desert is another matter.
In the case of the Australian deserts, there certainly isn't. As an example, the site I was involved with (BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam mine) had to run a line of artesian bores out as far as 200 km away from the plant, just to bring in sufficient water for a mineral processing operation. That bore line could not deliver anywhere near enough water to turn the arid country in between into arable land (even if the bore water had been suitable for irrigation purposes - which it wasn't).
Bill
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Vidiot
Sure, they could all fit.
They'd have to be very, very friendly, though.
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Witness My Fury
Just using 8 billion living now there would be 21 people per square meter, so no, they wont fit.
Using a round 100 billion for everyone who ever lived (allowing for the 8 billion dead at big A) then that jumps to 263 people per square meter.
So, total utter bollocks.
