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- JacobAldridge 16y agoI can't wait for RiderOfGiraffes to get wind of this project ... http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RiderOfGiraffes http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RiderOfGiraffes
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago<grin> Nothing to do with me, but I watch with interest. Sadly I can't send a photo of my giraffes because she's store-bought.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoSorry - typo and it's too late to correct it. s/giraffes/giraffe/ Singular. I only own one, although I have ridden several.
- jplewicke 16y agoThat's quite the giraffe gaffe.
- m0th87 16y agoI didn't even know giraffe riding existed. I always figured your username was some inside joke.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoIt's not an inside joke, and it is "real" for some definition of "real". I leave you to ponder the question. Email me if desperate. I should have a photo somewhere ...
- apgwoz 16y agoGet artistic and draw a picture of your giraffe!
- JeanPierre 16y agohttp://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/stats http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/stats I was somewhat amazed by those stats: I thought Americans would have contributed the most. Is there something I should know about Germans and Giraffes that I do not know?
- kwamenum86 16y agoIt looks like this started in Europe. A mainstream American website usually sees a 1:2 domestic to international ratio while a niche/startup website usually starts out with the opposite (actually more like 10:1 I would guess.) This follows that pattern except the U.S. is part of the international piece of the pie.
- ugh 16y agoThere is this one submitter of Giraffes[1], responsible for two percent of all German giraffes, or this one[2], responsible for nearly five percent. I didn’t even have to look all that hard to find them. [1] http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/search?name=Sanne http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/search?name=Sanne [2] http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/search?name=Ediktonia http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/search?name=Ediktonia
- doodyhead 16y ago[1] "I found 4 085 giraffes created by people named Sanne!" [2] "I found 9 988 giraffes created by people named Ediktonia!" The actual statistic is that 2% of all Germans who submitted giraffes were named Sanne and 5% were named Ediktonia. It doesn't say they were all the same person.
- ugh 16y agoClick through the giraffes. They are in fact all by the same person (or by different people who are all the same age and live in the same place).
- sjf 16y agoSanne has actually only submitted 15 pictures. This is one of them, http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/?id=54374 http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/?id=54374 There are ~2000 giraffes on one page. Ediktonia has similar images. Personally, I think these works are kind of taking the piss.
- rudyfink 16y agoThere are times when I realize what all of humanity has been building towards. Having built machines that could compute billions of cycles per second and then having connected them with networks signaling each other across the planet at fearsome rates, I have wondered what the next step for our people would be. Now I know. Now we might all gaze upon representations of giraffes and if we are worthy, we might contribute our own representation in a symbolic joining with the whole of the great human project.
- philk 16y ago...and I discover this just as I was about to launch my new startup: fivehundredthousandgiraffes.com Oh well, back to the drawing board.
- iamwil 16y agolike the 7 minute abs got usurped by the 6 minute abs?
- philk 16y agoMy business model consists of convincing users that their giraffes are private and then, once I've got half a million, shamelessly changing my privacy policy to help advertisers.
- cubicle67 16y agoThere's a cartoon somewhere of the 59 minute photo lab
- pavlov 16y agoI'm reminded of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army "My friend, Zhang, doesn't believe I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC. I'm gonna prove him wrong, but I need your help. (Or you'll be beheaded.) Thanks, Qin." Our time is gentler -- the Age of the Giraffes.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoExercise for the interested reader - why could he not have said: > ... I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC. ??
- mmelin 16y agoWhat, you mean a Chinese emperor did not know the exact future date of the birth of Christ?
- csytan 16y agoBecause he wasn't fluent in English?
- scopendo 16y agoBecause 209 BC will in the past by the time he collects the soldiers... that is, the year after 209 BC is 208 BC.
- mbrubeck 16y agoDon't you have a lot of giraffes you should be riding right now?
- wazoox 16y agoI remember sending a giraffe a long time ago, I had forgotten about it :)
- WarDekar 16y agoI love it! And I love the guessing game with the age of the submitter, I only wish the server wasn't getting slammed 'cause it takes too long to get the response. So far I'm 6 votes in with 3.7 years avg difference so far, it's a pretty great idea, though I wonder if it selects based on users so you don't get shown consecutive (or even in the vicinity in the case of the mass posters another comment mentioned) giraffes from the same artist.
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- edparcell 16y agoWikipedia puts the total African giraffe population at 110,000-150,000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe. So there are more pictures of giraffes than actual giraffes.
- tzury 16y agosame applies on counting human photos on social site altogether (flickr, facebook, tweetpic, etc.) would be far more than 6,819,100,000 (population of the world - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population)
- TallGuyShort 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population <- Anyone know the reason for the UN's low and medium estimates having serious downturns in population in the next century? Is it because of lowering child-birth rates, or because of expectations of resources/diseases, etc...?
- showerst 16y agoAccording to the PDF: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/WorldPop2300final.pdf http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/Wor... it's virtually all due to changes in fertility. As countries grow in wealth and life expectancy, the number of children per woman tends to drop off drastically.
- ganley 16y agoIt's due to zombie apocalypse. Duh.
- Sukotto 16y agoKeep in mind that every picture on that site is hand-made. The instructions disallow photos of actual giraffes or images created on/by a computer. How many drawings and human-shaped sculpture are there on those social sites? I doubt there's more than the 6.8 billion you quote from wikipedia.
- jonp 16y agoSince The Sheep Market http://www.thesheepmarket.com/ http://www.thesheepmarket.com/ paid people on Mechanical Turk 2c each for their sheep drawings I guess this means he's got nearly $16,000 of free labour so far.
- sethrq 16y agoI found one more! I= H H H /==\ T T
- eru 16y agoI= H H H /==\ T T You intended this? Sadly, it doesn't qualify, since it's made with a computer.