Where are the people?

US Population Density Map:

http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/pdf/512popdn.pdf

Persons per square mile:

http://factfinder.census.gov/leg1/04/72954104.gif

Percent Change per county: 2000 - 2006

http://factfinder.census.gov/leg1/11/72873211.gif

Percent Change per State: 2000 - 2006

http://factfinder.census.gov/leg1/03/72955103.gif

[BeWell]

All I get are red xs - but I will click the link, looks interesting.

ETA - just checked the link, yay - my whole section of the state is 10-49.9, and that must be a funny average, since there are wilderness areas and mountains without any human beings at all!

[ssonb]

Here is another way to look at all the people in the world. A math quiz. If you took all the people on earth and stood them shoulder to shoulder,toe to toe how large of an area will it take?

[ssonb]

The answer....400 sq miles or a square 20mi x20mi or fer us southerners they will all fit inside the 285 loop around Atlanta.

[SheWoff]

I didn't expect to see more people in east TN hills than I did over here in west TN...maybe they don't count river rats? Seems to be less density there.

She

[north runner]

From knowing what the area looks like where I live I can almost certainly say - the map sucks. Are they counting graveyards or something.

[Caplock50]

Speaking of graveyards...did you know that, if you live within 10 miles of one, they won't bury you in it?

[RiJoRi]

Speaking of graveyards...did you know that, if you live within 10 miles of one, they won't bury you in it?

Maybe in Texas, but my mother's graveyard is 8 miles from where she lived.

--Rich

[Caplock50]

You didn't catch it. The key word is "LIVE" not 'lived'. You see, they don't bury 'live' people, only dead ones.

And again, speaking of graveyards,...They are sooo popular that people are just dying to get in them.

It's a joke...

[russ3]

Cappy, you are incorregible. lol

russ3

[Jazzman]

Hey Cap,
A lot of people are dying that never died before,

Jazzman

[Caplock50]

Ya know, it'd be interesting to know exactly how many of them got 're-invigorated' over of this election...and actually voted.

[dreadstalker]

Ya know, it'd be interesting to know exactly how many of them got 're-invigorated' over of this election...and actually voted.

I've been waiting to hear that tidbit of information myself. Reckon it will ever hit the news?

[cyberiot]

You didn't catch it. The key word is "LIVE" not 'lived'. You see, they don't bury 'live' people, only dead ones.

And again, speaking of graveyards,...They are sooo popular that people are just dying to get in them.

It's a joke...

Aw, SHEESH, Cappy--ya got me!! And up until now, I thought I was pretty good at this kinda stuff.

An electric train is headed due north at 58.6 miles per hour. A steady wind is blowing from the south-southwest at 12.3 miles per hour. In what direction does the smoke travel?

[obleo]

Good thing I had another cup of coffee....um, smoke from an electric train?
How'd I do? ;)

That's a good one!

[SheWoff]

http://www.funnyforumpics.com/forums/Red-X/1/broken.gif

[dreadstalker]

Good thing I had another cup of coffee....um, smoke from an electric train?
How'd I do? ;)

That's a good one!If a plane carrying 76 passengers and 5 crew crashes right in the middle of the Canadian?American border where do you bury the survivors.

[SheWoff]

Nowhere....you don't bury survivors. :mrgreen:

[cyberiot]

Good thing I had another cup of coffee....um, smoke from an electric train?
How'd I do? ;)

That's a good one!

Ding! We have a winner!:-D

[Caplock50]

Heh, as for the direction the smoke would go, I guess it'd depend on just how bad the train was burning, eh?

If you are in a train car and it is traveling 60 miles an hour, and you built a fire in the middle of the floor of the car...would the smoke go straight up? Oh and the car is sealed well enough that there are no drafts.


Your dog is out chasing a rabbit. The dog's front legs are traveling at 40 miles an hour. What are the hind legs doing?

[dreadstalker]

Your dog is out chasing a rabbit. The dog's front legs are traveling at 40 miles an hour. What are the hind legs doing?

Last time I looked they were hauling a**.

[Caplock50]

dreadstalker, you got it! They be haulin' butt.

And about the smoke question, if you look at it very 'technically', the column of smoke from my fire is leaning in the direction of travel of the train...if considered from a point(way) outside the train car. If viewed only from inside the car, it'd be going straight up.

[cyberiot]

dreadstalker, you got it! They be haulin' butt.

And about the smoke question, if you look at it very 'technically', the column of smoke from my fire is leaning in the direction of travel of the train...if considered from a point(way) outside the train car. If viewed only from inside the car, it'd be going straight up.

Awright, Caplock. I'm at your mercy. Please help me understand what it is I am missing.

To me, "straight up" means vertical. As I understand it, all lines that intersect the precise center of the Earth are vertical. Up is up, no matter where on the Earth you are standing, which is why Flynn's hair still lies flat on his head down at the South Pole, unless he has read John G.'s most recent rant.

Let's say the railroad car is made of glass, so we can see it from a vantage point outside the train. Why would the smoke appear to lean in the direction of travel?

Please answer as though you are talking to a five-year-old. I have to draw pictures to do story problems in math . . .

[cyberiot]

Oh, wait. I need more information. Is there a hole in the top of the boxcar?

If so, then why wouldn't the smoke trail toward the caboose--opposite the direction of travel?

Daggone it, you're gonna break my sorry brain.

[Ferris]

dreadstalker, you got it! They be haulin' butt.

And about the smoke question, if you look at it very 'technically', the column of smoke from my fire is leaning in the direction of travel of the train...if considered from a point(way) outside the train car. If viewed only from inside the car, it'd be going straight up.

This is something that is talked about in depth in the book "a Brief History of Time..." it was really interesting. The idea that they used was about a bouncing ball though (I think :shock:)...

[Caplock50]

Ferris, yeah, a bouncing ball would probably be easier to explain than my column of smoke. But,...

cyberiot, If viewed from outside the transparant boxcar, you will associate external objects with the smoke's rise. Let's say the car is moving from left to right of you, and is moving 5 feet a minute. If a puff of smoke escapes the fire and you watch it rise for one minute...the car will have moved 5 feet...and the puff of smoke will have moved that same 5 feet...and in the same direction as the car has moved...forward. Now, to an observer *in* the car, the smoke will have only gone straight up. Same with the bouncing ball.

[cyberiot]

Ferris, yeah, a bouncing ball would probably be easier to explain than my column of smoke. But,...

cyberiot, If viewed from outside the transparant boxcar, you will associate external objects with the smoke's rise. Let's say the car is moving from left to right of you, and is moving 5 feet a minute. If a puff of smoke escapes the fire and you watch it rise for one minute...the car will have moved 5 feet...and the puff of smoke will have moved that same 5 feet...and in the same direction as the car has moved...forward. Now, to an observer *in* the car, the smoke will have only gone straight up. Same with the bouncing ball.

Oh! . . . Oh!!!! . . . I GET IT!!!! I GET IT!!!! I GET IT!!!! WOOHOO!!!:-D:-D:-D

I was ramping up to ask more questions, then you turned the lightbulb went on. Daggone it, Caplock, where were you when I was taking science class? I was operating under a faulty set of premises, the chief one being that the smoke would be wafting at an angle other than perpendicular to the boxcar floor. Bad premise, bad results. D'oh!

Thanks for taking the time to help me connect the dots. I really don't wanna die stupid, if I can help it.

[Caplock50]

Well, cyberiot, you got no worries there, Friend. You ain't going to die stupid...because you ain't stupid. If you were, you wouldn't be a member here. Er, this *is* the Mensa website, isn't it?

[ActionJackson]

Looks like Wyoming, Montana, and Nevada may be the places to be should the world, as we know it, crumble. I run a delivery route in the Rocky Mountains west of Denver. You might think that we could run to "them thar hills" but there are as many people living there as there are in Denver. It's a madhouse in many mountain towns and hamlet communities.