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7 billion people on 1 page
- kapuzineralex 13y agoLIES! There's a link at the bottom of the first page that says "More..."
- verygoodyear 13y ago"How big is this page? Huge! The exact size depends on the screen resolution on your PC, but the page is almost 1 mile (1.6 Km) high and 800 feet (250 m) wide." Wow - pretty crazy.
- salmanapk 13y agoAm amazed browsers can even render a page that big.
- tosbourn 13y agoI just opened the page up in code inspector and deleted an element, am I going to jail?
- hodgesmr 13y agoLoad time is impressive
- anoplus 13y agoYeah! and my colleagues worried about me converting divs into tables. I guess tables are legitimate :)
- D9u 13y agoI thought the same thing. +1
- wubbfindel 13y agoThe magic is repeating background images, I believe.
- recycleme 13y agohttp://www.7billionworld.com/howbig.php http://www.7billionworld.com/howbig.php
- TomGullen 13y agoVery cool. It would be nice if the colours varied slightly so you had some reference point when scrolling. At the moment I scroll down and the page looks static.
- freshfruit 13y agoAwesome. I'm a sucker for a good visualization. What about adding a fixed nav to toggle the image size... sort of a zoom in/out effect?
- wubbfindel 13y agoI would love it if (based on the estimated birth rate) I could put in the date, time and place of my birth and find myself. That would be cool.
- samstave 13y agoIwas thinking that I would like to be able to click on a person and a popup asking for my details would arise. I could populate it with me. (Just like: Name | DOB | Place of birth | Place of residence)
- seivan 13y agoSoooo...... am I the only one who noticed Africa was annotated with a black coloured human, and Asia with a yellow one.
- alistairclark 13y agoHaha yeah me too. It's like Power Rangers all over again.
- masterkain 13y agoExplained in the FAQ: http://www.7billionworld.com/faq.php http://www.7billionworld.com/faq.php
- jere 13y agoThey seem to be confused. From wikipedia: >As can be read in the Olympic Charter, the Olympic symbol represents the union of the five regions of the world and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games. However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Prior to 1951, the official handbook stated that each colour corresponded to a particular continent: blue for Europe, yellow for Asia, black for Africa, green for Australia and Oceania and red for America (North and South considered as a single continent); this was removed because there was no evidence that Coubertin had intended it (the quote above was probably an afterthought). If you stop to think about it for a moment, if that were the case, it would make the olympic logo seem quite racist.
- Cthulhu_ 13y agoIs there a particular color Africans or Asians prefer to associate themselves with moreso than the colors chosen there? Just curious. I don't see how associating a certain continent with a certain color would be racist.
- jere 13y agoA lot of racial slurs are based on a caricature of people's skin colors. Selecting a color that has historically had that problem and then intentionally assigning it to the target of those caricatures seems, if not malicious, at least completely oblivious.
- jere 13y agoReminds me of a (dumb) idea I had for a social networking site that was inspired by the million dollar homepage: show 1 million user accounts on one page, no scrolling. Every user can choose the color of their pixel. With zooming in or multiple pages, that could be extended to everyone, but I thought a million people would be pretty cool. Isn't quite as cool with the few dozen people that showed up though. http://humbit.com/humbit.php http://humbit.com/humbit.php
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- felipebueno 13y agoI was playing around with Humbit and actually it is pretty cool =). But it is not that useful and gets boring after a few minutes. You could make it more dynamic or something to make users want to use it more.
- jere 13y agoThat ship left a long time ago, but thanks!
- sbjustin 13y agoNeat idea. My only issue is I have a hard time between a 'user' and dust on my screen. lol
- jere 13y agoYea, no kidding. It helps if you wipe off your screen, make sure the brightness is up, dim the lights, pour yourself a glass of wine, etc.
- goldfeld 13y agoWould be cool if new people kept popping on top at the average rate people are born. also a good opportunity to stop such cruel segregation practices, and just mix up the folks at the rate they are born. The new generations should know no race.
- bbx 13y agoTo keep things squared, you'd have to cross out people at the rate they die as well. And although the colors may suggest otherwise, the 5 continents division is not based on race but rather on location.
- MojoJolo 13y agoWith addition of birth rate and death rate, the site may become a simulation application. Maybe also adding a text field to input those rate to check if we are increasing or decreasing.
- scottcanoni 13y agoIn Chrome, the scrollbar disappears after about 3/4 the way down. Interesting, anyone know why?
- kristopher 13y agoThis idea could be improved by allowing people to "claim" their spot by logging into Facebook or Twitter, adding a face to an otherwise large number.
- orangethirty 13y agoCharge them $2 each. That's worth a couple of millions at the very least.
- scottcanoni 13y agoTables! Gasp, my eyes!
- neeee 13y agoSome people might find blue europeans, red americans and green australians racist.
- nikolakirev 13y agoHehe. You are right. Those are actually the official olympic colors of the continents, se they will get away with it.
- savrajsingh 13y agoEveryone could fit in a cube 1.1 miles on a side. Let's say each person gets a 72 inch tall, 30 inch wide, 20 inch deep box. That's about 28 cubic feet per person. If you stacked all 7B of these next to each other in a cube, you'd have a cube with a side of just 1.1 miles. http://instacalc.com/11188 http://instacalc.com/11188
- Retric 13y agoA lot of people would not fit in boxes of that size (6'x2'6"x1'8"). But, if you where thinking of an average that might work.
- redblacktree 13y agoThey'd fit if you got creative. You could always put pieces of them in someone else's box. :)
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- solistice 13y ago7 billion people in cramped boxes, some of them with limbs amputated and some of them with body parts in their box, with no ventilation, waste disposal or food supply. Sounds like a great xkcd what-if. That reminds me that you can fit 7 billion people on Rhode Island, but the geopolitical effects of that would be less than beneficial.
- dlhavema 13y agothe "what-if XKCD" related to something like this actually happening is kind of amusing: http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/ http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
- lucb1e 13y agoThis page makes my vertical scrollbar disappear when I go beyond ~70% of the page downwards. Chrome 24 on Windows 7, pretty common setup I'd say.
- bazb 13y agoMe too, time for a chrome bug report.
- marcelftw 13y agoreminds me of http://www.theonemillioneuromap.com http://www.theonemillioneuromap.com ... in a way.
- Kequc 13y agoFor the 1€ price tag per pin you think loading that website would take fewer than one million seconds.
- smoyer 13y agoI didn't scroll down far enough to "see everyone", but according to the legend, there are no people in Antarctica. Since it's neutral territory, I guess those people are naturally residents of one of the other continents, but it still seems sad in some way. EDIT: I guess I would have also split north and south America into two continents ... sorry I didn't notice before! EDIT2: I should also note that one of the goals on my bucket list was to travel to all 7 continents. I've found out that getting to Antarctica is hard without specific skills (and in some cases, specific employers ... who knew there were polar service companies: http://rpsc.raytheon.com/ http://rpsc.raytheon.com/). I guess my best bet is to become wealthy enough to fund an expedition of my own ... but then I'd have a hard time justifying the cost.
- mdsw1 13y agoJust wondered how the population stats are measured? I.E. How do we actually know that there is this amount of people in the world? Asia 4,221,013,428 Africa 1,056,035,237 Americas 947,209,798 Europe 738,356,924 Oceania 37,384,613 World 7,000,000,000
- jerf 13y agoWe don't, and even if we did, it changes on a minute-by-minute basis. This calls for a bit of suspension of disbelief.
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- bnegreve 13y ago> On this page you can see every single one of us. One by one. If you want to count them one by one at 1 per sec, you'll need ~220 years. Edit: I just noted that it was already mentioned in the counting all of us section...
- granfalloon 13y agoi'm assuming i shouldn't try to print this at work?
- taytus 13y agoToo late.
- ubersoldat2k7 13y agoHey! I'm there! A little "blue" though.
- songzme 13y agoHmmm there's not a lotta people in Oceania
- martin-adams 13y agoSadly, I can't get them all to do the Harlem Shake.
- gavinh 13y agoWho thought it was a good idea to color-code Asians with yellow?
- robmclarty 13y agoikr... and Africans are obviously colour-coded as black. They might as well have coloured Europeans in white (but I guess that wouldn't show up well on the already white background). I think there's a little bit of ethnicity generalization going on here which isn't really appropriate.
- nbashaw 13y agoIt's interesting how they did it. I was assuming some javascript trick but it's really quite simple and elegant: #as1 { background-image: url('seven_asia.gif'); height: 2110500px; width: 640000px; }
- brenfrow 13y agoThats how it loaded so dang fast.
- jacquesm 13y ago175,000 lines x 40,000 columns of a 16x20 pixel image. That's a pretty impressive optimization in the browser, I'm fairly sure I don't have that much RAM.
- tete 13y agoAnyone able to find me? I tried. It's really hard.