The 29 day theory...

[Emadyville]

My high school teacher once told me this, I found it interesting.

It starts with this...

There is a pond with lilly pads, and the pond gets lilly pads for an entire month (30 days). The catch is each day it doubles.

So day 1 there is one lilly pad, day 2 there are 2, day 3 there are 4, day 4 there are 8 and so on...

Then you're asked, at what day is the pond half full?





Now reading and being told then asked this are much different, but people always react and say day 15, because it is half of 30. When obviously the day the pond's half full is day 29.

The point of this is about overpopulation, that it took 29 DAYS just for the pond to be half full, and then only one day for it to be full.

I always thought it was interesting, and thought I'd share

[GoodGirlsGetGutted]

That's very interesting, but not exactly stand up comic material.

[wrestler1256]

thats sweet!

[Emadyville]

That's very interesting, but not exactly stand up comic material.

It's not supposed to be

[GoodGirlsGetGutted]

That's very interesting, but not exactly stand up comic material.

It's not supposed to be

Haha, sorry!

I just realized

College crib
Comedy crib

Very similar. I mixed those up.

[Emadyville]

Haha word, I was gunna say

[dR3]

Lol, when I first heard about it I thought 15 too. But after a little contemplation, I got it.

[Tash8]

yeah it works at exponential rate, doesn't it?

[Emadyville]

yeah it works at exponential rate, doesn't it?

Yeah that's the whole point I guess, eventually the world will double in population in like a decade or something

[Anim]

yeah it works at exponential rate, doesn't it?

Yeah that's the whole point I guess, eventually the world will double in population in like a decade or something

If I remember correctly my teacher once said something about the worlds population being expected to be 10 billion people before 2050, so unless something happens we're going to have a very serious problem with overpopulation in our lifetime.

[Emadyville]

yeah it works at exponential rate, doesn't it?

Yeah that's the whole point I guess, eventually the world will double in population in like a decade or something

If I remember correctly my teacher once said something about the worlds population being expected to be 10 billion people before 2050, so unless something happens we're going to have a very serious problem with overpopulation in our lifetime.

Exactly, which means more than 3 billion more people in 40 years, when it took thousands and thousands of years to reach 6.whater billion now.

The 29 day theory will soon become reality