I love this fact: average walking speed increases predictably as city size increases, roughly as N^{0.1}, where N is city population. http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/104/17/7301.full.pdf …pic.twitter.com/LyXYH169UX
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Yeah I get about 5.86 x 10^90 people. What’s Mumbai at now? Gotta be starting to feel some relativist effects at least.
Closer to the size of the Universe than I expected - if we reassembled every atom in the Universe into humans, comes out in the range of 10^50-10^60, I believe.
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tfw when being 30 or 40 orders of magnitude off is considered closer... :-)
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Try speed of sound first?
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Seems like a good goal for our species
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Bravo. This conversation was great. Would retweet again.
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This actually is the Anthropocene project.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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