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Ask HN: Surface area of the Earth/Earth's population = How much space each?
- malanj 13y agohttps://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=land+area+of+earth+%2F+world+population https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=land+area+of+earth+%2F...
- wheresclark 13y agoFantastic. Thanks! This is a scarily small area per person.
- officialjunk 13y agohow much space do you need? ~225k sq ft seems like more than adequate to have a mansion and a farm... it's about 3.9 american football fields in area.
- wheresclark 13y agoI wasn't meaning small in terms of liveable area. I was just thinking how people generally imagine the planet to be this near infinite area, but really, we each only have a tiny patch of space to look after.
- jgeorge 13y ago5 acres per person seems like a lot of space to me, but if you take into account how much of the earth's surface area is uninhabitable or at least difficult to inhabit there's probably a lot less practical space per person. Knowing my luck my 5 sq mi would be in the middle of the Sahara or one of the Cook Islands or somewhere 6 zillion miles from anywhere else. :)