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10'000 people living in 10'000 log cabins, each of 50m² (5 × 10 m² sounds reasonable to me) will cover more space than 10'000 people living on 100 acres (= 0.4k
by claudius 12y ago
10'000 people living in 10'000 log cabins, each of 50m² (5 × 10 m² sounds reasonable to me) will cover more space than 10'000 people living on 100 acres (= 0.4km²). Furthermore, if you consider a single spot of 0.4km² populated in an area of 4047km², you will likely find that its impact on the vast majority of those 4047km² is absolutely minimal, whereas, if my WolframAlpha-foo is not completely wrong, there is no point further than 400m from the next human settlement in your first scenario.