Author Topic: what would happen if there were 10x the amount of people  (Read 1972 times)

Impossible. Matter never gets destroyed. By killing and burning those humans, you can get the oxygen back in the form of carbon di/monoxide.

all of you guys are loving insane and should be sent to a mental health hospital before you shoot up some place or burn down a loving building jesus christ

all of you guys are loving insane and should be sent to a mental health hospital before you shoot up some place or burn down a loving building jesus christ

Somebody should make a movie about this with the scenario xalos gave us. Do the old humans know that the government is only killing the new ones? Was there an announcement telling everyone whats going on? Should the old humans fight the government that are coming to slay everyone? If they do, they're marked to kill for sure anyway, is it worth the risk of defence? Are the government actually going to kill everyone or just the newbies?

Somebody should make a movie about this with the scenario xalos gave us. Do the old humans know that the government is only killing the new ones? Was there an announcement telling everyone whats going on? Should the old humans fight the government that are coming to slay everyone? If they do, they're marked to kill for sure anyway, is it worth the risk of defence? Are the government actually going to kill everyone or just the newbies?
i think there was a tv series like this where nobody could die all the sudden and the earth got overpopulated. forget the name though

if nobody could die how is there over population

if nobody could die how is there over population
because the people who were dying stopped dying? i dont understand the question

i think there was a tv series like this where nobody could die all the sudden and the earth got overpopulated. forget the name though
Torchwood: Miracle Day.
Part of the adult spin-off series from Doctor Who.

No one could die, although they could be injured.
Sick people ended up being rounded up and incinerated (which didn't actually kill them), because they were a drain on resources.

Impossible. Matter never gets destroyed. By killing and burning those humans, you can get the oxygen back in the form of carbon di/monoxide.
Well that's clearly not what he was referring to.
His ludicrous suggestion was that humans would breathe all of the O2 in the air, and replace it with CO2. And the O2 output of all the plants in the world wouldn't be enough to sustain animal life on the planet.

because the people who were dying stopped dying? i dont understand the question
if you can't die how can the earth be over populated is the question. If everyone stood next to each other right now (7bil) we wouldn't even cover the city of LA. There is tons of space on this planet, how can you be over populated if you don't die? The point of "over populated" means you can't survive with the amount of people here. I don't get it.

His ludicrous suggestion was that humans would breathe all of the O2 in the air, and replace it with CO2. And the O2 output of all the plants in the world wouldn't be enough to sustain animal life on the planet.
Scientists would figure out how to solve this issue as it would become an imminent threat to all animal life.

Sick people ended up being rounded up and incinerated (which didn't actually kill them), because they were a drain on
well TECHNICALLY they can't be a drain on resources since they can live on nothing, right???

if you can't die how can the earth be over populated is the question. If everyone stood next to each other right now (7bil) we wouldn't even cover the city of LA. There is tons of space on this planet, how can you be over populated if you don't die? The point of "over populated" means you can't survive with the amount of people here. I don't get it.
In the series people still felt all the regular pains. Including hunger and thirst.

As the population kept increasing at a drastic rate (birth rate isn't all that far ahead of rate of death), the resources for people quickly ran out.
Now there were billions of hungry people. The population was too large, far too quickly, to be sustained comfortably.

There was also not enough medicine for people, nor the facilities to care for people.
Old people were still getting older, and still getting injured. With no one dying, they continued to drain resources, while more people behind them needed resources too.


Scientists would figure out how to solve this issue as it would become an imminent threat to all animal life.
Let's say this is an entirely different hypothetical situation (because it doesn't make sense in the current one).
If the consumption of oxygen was suddenly outcompeting the output of oxygen by all the worlds vegetation, then there wouldn't be much scientists could do.

The means of making oxygen on the ISS for example, is via electrolysis of water. Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.
This requires some fair amount of power.

The power it takes to do this on a scale to give animal life a chance on earth would be immense. To the extent that we're putting more CO2 back into the atmosphere via the burning of fuels. We're probably not going to make a dent.

There is so much oxygen across the planet at the moment that we wouldn't be anywhere close to running out. If we were to be at a dangerous point like that, then the amount of work required to put it back would probably be more than we could manage.


well TECHNICALLY they can't be a drain on resources since they can live on nothing, right???
Technically, yes.
But the issue is that you now have the sick and injured sitting around in extreme pain. And their loved ones want something done about it (but not them to be rounded up and incinerated).
By public demand the sick still need resources. They need to be cared for, and often need their own housing, on account of the spread of disease.

As for the general population, although they can't die, they can't do anything if they're not being fed and watered. People would become deathly sick, and immobile. They wouldn't die, but they wouldn't be able to do anything, and would be a waste of space.

And if you just let your population starve, then your workforce is also gone, and you no longer have a country.

would the earth get too heavy and fall?
I'm not sure you actually understand what gravity is

I'm not sure you actually understand what gravity is
it might get too heavy and bend the fabric of spacetime so much it rips it

there would be 1,100 people in every square mile of land on the earth wtf

if you take out the "uninhabitable" (desert and mountains) there would be over 2,500 people per square mile of land
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