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Re: OT: Interesting Ratio
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Barry Lake <[log in to unmask]>
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Barry Lake <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:44:06 -0800
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At 3:21 PM -0600 12/16/99, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Earth ratio
>
>    If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100
>people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would
>look like something like the following:


If we could shrink the earth to the size of a billiard ball, it would be
smoother than a billiard ball.

Conversely, if we could expand a billiard ball to the size of the earth, it
would have deeper chasms and higher mountains.


Barry Lake                                 [log in to unmask]
Allegro Consultants, Inc.                  www.allegro.com
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