It's theoretically possible to drive around 7 billion people in less than an hour.

Capt'n Midnight

Dfmnoc wrote: »

What heat would be generated in the center of the square?

about 1/10th that from bright sunlight

Would the CO2 generated in the square out do the oxygen levels so much that it would wipe out a high percentage of the square.

all the heat would create a updraft the resulting vortex would suck people off into the stratosphere where they'd be frozen solid until we discover how to reanimate them

patmac

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

all the heat would create a updraft the resulting vortex would suck people off into the stratosphere where they'd be frozen solid until we discover how to reanimate them

The over population problem solved there.

seamus

Not sure why they decided to use a square. A circle is a more efficient use of space and there'd be no need to slow down to take the 90 degree corner.

7200km^2 area, so ~48km radius. Gives us a circumference of ~300km. More than a 10% drop and no slowing down - at that size the relative curvature would be quite small, you wouldn't lose much if any speed having to turn.

As Cap'n Midnight quite astutely points out, you could fit two people on average per square metre. It'd be awkward and warm, but they would fit. So that's actually 3600km^2. That's a circle with a circumference of ~213km, which many higher-end production vehicles could clear in an hour at full pelt. Though your engine might be junk at the end of it.

If you want to go mad and squeeze in 6 people per square metre, that brings the circle down to 153km, which most consumer vehicles could manage in an hour or less.

Capt'n Midnight

spurious wrote: »

The space all the people in the world would take up used to be the size of the Isle of Wight when I was at school, so it has increased a lot.

http://www.ampneycrucis.f9.co.uk/PARK/Population.htm

For every obese American and European there are at least 10 under-nourished adults in the world, so one average adult can comfortably stand on a rectangle 500 cm wide by 400 cm deep (= 0.2 square metres), with the average child occupying half that area.
...
4,729,542,349 adults x 0.2 sq. m = 945,908,469 sq.m

2,026,946,721 children x 0.1 = 202,694,672 sq.m

__________________________ _______________

Total area needed = 1,148,603,141 sq.m

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_area
Okinawa is 1,206

Grande Comore 1,158 (Comoros)

Oblomov

The figure of 7 buillion is for 2011, given the exponential increase of 160 million per year.. but, the number reaching the age and being able to have childeen increases each year... as shown by the figures posted eaarlier, the gap betwen each billion becomes smaller each year

An additional 320 million square metres needed to house the additional but also dial in that age is not taken into account and a large number in their first infancy and likely to be carried by one of their parents.

Wouls one square metre be suffcient in the case where multiple births take place. The increasing number of twins and triplets etc.

What is the fuel consumption of the Bugatti running at full throttle for that time. Race cars usual at least once in the hour.


Who would cater for that number of people in one place, the biggest McDonald's was built at the London Olympics and was only capapnle of seating 1500 customers.

kowloon

How alive do these people have to be? They'd take up a lot less space as a liquid.

lomtick

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

A brilliant answer to a question no one asked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qcLy8h9grQ&t=1m5s

bnt wrote: »

OK ... a square of area 7200 km² has sides of just under 85 km, and a square has four sides ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz-TemWooa4&t=0m3s

You're welcome

Capt'n Midnight

kowloon wrote: »

How alive do these people have to be? They'd take up a lot less space as a liquid.

do you even know what a liquid is ?

it would flow all over the place


stack them in a pyramid or cone , should get to about 60 degrees before it starts getting unstable



Technically speaking if you drive a car in a circle you have just driven around everyone ,it's just a matter of perspective

Victor

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Technically speaking if you drive a car in a circle you have just driven around everyone ,it's just a matter of perspective

http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/~rfm/107f07/epmjokes.html

The “Herding Sheep” joke

An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are shown a pasture with a herd of sheep, and told to put them inside the smallest possible amount of fence. The engineer is first. He herds the sheep into a circle and then puts the fence around them, declaring, "A circle will use the least fence for a given area, so this is the best solution." The physicist is next. She creates a circular fence of infinite radius around the sheep, and then draws the fence tight around the herd, declaring, "This will give the smallest circular fence around the herd." The mathematician is last. After giving the problem a little thought, he puts a small fence around himself and then declares, "I define myself to be on the outside!"

kowloon

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

do you even know what a liquid is ?

it would flow all over the place

I thought you were smart enough to know they'd have to be contained in something. :pac:

Prof Nincom Poop Ph.D

kowloon wrote: »

I thought you were smart enough to know they'd have to be contained in something. :pac:

Stir in abit of Bisto and it'll thicken up.