[i4k]

Just because NASA announced there's no Meteor/Asteroid Earth-Killer/Country-killer that will hit us in the next 100 years, it doesn't mean that small sized ones would not. What amazes me is that when those small rocks do hit earth, they always fall into vast empty fields. The earth is so big and we fail to realize it. Once I read that the entire earth population would easily fit into New York, and it would not be so packed. I wonder what area would cover all the human made constructions (houses, buildings, industries, etc) and how it compare to the entire globe surface. It's actually very hard to hit humans from space, you'd have to try hard if trying to shoot a rock from sky to actually kill someone.

[deafpolygon]

> Once I read that the entire earth population would easily fit into New York, and it would not be so packed.

7b people fits in the state of NY ?

[tzs]

Yes, with a density of 128k people per sq^2 (50k per km^2). That's about 115% the density of Manila in the Philippines, and about 60% the density of Malé in the Maldives, if you want some places to compare to.

Wikipedia has a nice photo of Malé [1]. So imagine covering the entire state like that and it would be enough to hold the projected peak human population which is forecast to be a bit under 11 billion in 2080.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%A9#/media/File:Mal%C3%A...

[mock-possum]

From Wikipedia:

> Sewage is pumped unprocessed into the sea

Lovely

[deafpolygon]

Does this look pleasant to you?