Re: RE: Jeep Liberty

From: Jason Bleazard (dml@bleazard.net)
Date: Sat Jan 20 2007 - 07:23:58 EST


Rick Barnes wrote:
> Good points all...here is a trivia fact,...you could take every human on
> earth and give them one acre of land and they could everyone live within
> just the state of Texas, and Texas would still have room. Yeah, I didn't
> believe it either till I looked it up. That was in one of P.J. O'Rourke's
> books.
>

Not to be a nit-picking jerk, but where did you look that up? I just
checked Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas) and it says the
land area of Texas is 268,581 square miles. I'll grant that Wikipedia
is not the ultimate source for accurate facts, but they usually get the
basic stuff right. However, the US Census Bureau says Texas only has
261,797 square miles
(http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48000.html). Either someone
has inflated the numbers in Wikipedia, or the US Government is trying to
grab some land back and hoping nobody will notice.

We'll go with the larger number. There are 640 acres in one square
mile, so Texas would have 268,581 * 640, or 171,891,840 acres (a bit
under 172 million). You'd need 35 Texases to hold 6 billion people if
each one had a full acre. Texas is big, but I don't think it's nearly
as big as Texans think it is :-).

If I've messed up the calculation somehow, kindly point out my error. I
haven't had any caffeine yet, so all bets are off.

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Jason Bleazard  http://drazaelb.blogspot.com  Burlington, Ontario
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