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Anon's uncle is sick (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Dalvoron@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

About 90-95% of humans have died at some point in their lives so yeah very likely we will follow suit at some point.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's more than that... I know you were joking but ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimates_of_historical_world_population

Yeah it's estimated but it's a shit ton of people so it's more like 99.9%

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You underestimate the effects of population growth. There was a lot of time in prehistory but the population at any given point was tiny compared to today.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i remember an old article that said DNA shows that all current humans can be traced back to 7 women during the ice age.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

There were probably more around at the time, all the other bloodlines just died off.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

And they were all neighbours in the same age and shared a WhatsApp group.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those people were alive and died it doesn't matter... There have been more people dead than are currently living by a lot.

We don't care how many people were alive back than compared to today. It's the total amount to how many have died...

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We don’t care how many people were alive back than compared to today.

But that is exactly the ratio you claim to be 99.9% when in reality it is closer to 93%.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No your right, my bad I'm terrible at math and sick

[–] Dalvoron@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Hang on there based on the image, 7.95 billion alive today, 109 billion have lived and died, that's like 93% death rate not 99.9%. Is there some other figure on the page you're basing the 99.9% off?

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 1 week ago

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.