Showing posts with label population. Show all posts
Showing posts with label population. Show all posts

Monday, March 10, 2008

heavy ants

there are ten thousand trillion ants alive right now and, combined, they weigh roughly the same as 6.5 billion humans. to put the number ten thousand trillion into perspective, if you were an ant and i told you that you were "one in a million," there'd be ten billion other ants JUST like you.

the first half of the above paragraph came from the book, "the creation" by e.o. wilson. the second half came from this equation: boredom + brain = sentence.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

one in a million

if someone tells you that you're "one in a million," you might want to wipe the smile off your face because that means that there are over 6,000 people just like you.

i'm just saying.