Bishops divided in battle over birth control edict

nucc · 2012-05-25T16:53:34.907893+00:00

I find it hard to think of an advantage in having a single city of three or four billion people to which all food must be shipped from around the planet, instead of having a thousand cities of three or four million people spread around so that they are closer to the food sources and all other resources.

nucc · 2012-05-25T15:13:32.235373+00:00

Oh, I see, farmers are outside. So who will build their farming equipment and drill the oil to fuel them and harvest the trees for lumber to build their farms and manufacture the chainsaws used to cut the trees and mine the minerals needed to build the chainsaws and...

Are you starting to grasp the problem?

NeedsEvidence · 2012-05-25T15:09:58.297511+00:00

X-er: I believe in X.

Y-er: Why do you believe in X since Y is obviously right?

X-er: It's my faith. Why do you believe in Y and not X?

Y-er: It's my faith and nothing can change that.

X-er: Yeah, I completely understand. Well, i gotta run now, I have a politician to lobby.

X-er: ...and I don't want to be late for my meeting with the school board. See ya!

nucc · 2012-05-25T13:59:49.624084+00:00

Sure, but since we all live in that city, who does the work over there, who produces and delivers the goods, who disposes of the waste, and how is that more efficient than decentralizing everyone like now?

8Bitsblu · 2012-05-25T04:56:50.171643-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Hr4ZwJSag

see0red · 3 days

I can think of a couple of problems. The main one is that the word "trillion" means different things to different countries (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales) so authors who want an international audience need to be prudent with nomenclature, even when they write for Scientific American.

A lesser (?) problem is that large numbers become impossible to grasp beyond a certain point so breaking them down into more manageable multiples helps comprehension. For example, you could also say a million millions to better illustrate the magnitude of a trillion.

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