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July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?

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Re: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?

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Post by raverbashing »

yorwba wrote: post #67
spiralx wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

London has long benefitted from its position allowing its working day overlapping everywhere from the US West coast to Japan, even if barely at those extremes. Most of the world's population lies between UTC-5 and UTC+5 I believe.

Most of the world's population lives inside the Valeriepieris circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle which is covered by the time zones UTC+5 through UTC+8. So if you want to be as close as possible to as many people as possible, somewhere in Myanmar would be a better choice than London. Of course the calculus changes if you also consider how much money each of these people has access to.

Yes, you are not necessarily interested in the population barycenter, but more on the money barycenter

That changes the equation

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Post by pcrh »

andai wrote: post #80
avalys wrote: post #13

Wow, what a fun statistic! Even if it's pushing the common definition of "sunlight" quite a bit. Also makes me wonder what fraction of the world population is awake at a given time, and what that fraction looks like plotted against 24 hours of the day.

In Internet Census 2012, there's an animated gif of planet earth's day/night cycle as measured by which IP addresses respond to ping: http://census2012.sourceforge.net/images/geovideo_lowres.gif Source: http://census2012.sourceforge.net/paper.html

That's interesting. You can see a difference between N and S hemispheres on the same longitude, e.g. North East USA vs Peru and Japan vs East Australia.

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Post by jmmcd »

cft wrote: post #14
avalys wrote: post #13

Wow, what a fun statistic! Even if it's pushing the common definition of "sunlight" quite a bit. Also makes me wonder what fraction of the world population is awake at a given time, and what that fraction looks like plotted against 24 hours of the day.

A practical issue- if you have a world-distributed workforce or an international news agency, what's the best geographical location for the headquarters?

Other people are saying the UK, but if you want the same time-zone plus EU laws/customs/currency, you can choose Ireland.

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Post by BbzzbB »

corrral wrote: post #5

Seems related to the fact that you can draw a surprisingly-small circle over part of Asia and have more people inside the circle, than out. Human geography is very uneven.

Another factoid in this vein: more than half of Canada's population lives South of the USA's Northern border.

Re: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?

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Post by goatlover »

Izikiel43 wrote: post #3
plasticchris wrote: post #2

Australia has less than 1% of the world population? Edit: yep, around 0.3%

Yes. 7 billion people => 7000 Million. 1% of that, 70 Million. Population of australia, 25.7 Million people. So not only less than 1%, less than 0.5%

Closer to 8 billion now. 7.753 according to google.

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC »

BbzzbB wrote: post #115
corrral wrote: post #5

Seems related to the fact that you can draw a surprisingly-small circle over part of Asia and have more people inside the circle, than out. Human geography is very uneven.

Another factoid in this vein: more than half of Canada's population lives South of the USA's Northern border.

I think you should specify the northern border of the contiguous states. Otherwise, I bet 99% of Canada’s population lives south of Alaska northern border.

Re: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?

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Post by BbzzbB »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #117
BbzzbB wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another factoid in this vein: more than half of Canada's population lives South of the USA's Northern border.

I think you should specify the northern border of the contiguous states. Otherwise, I bet 99% of Canada’s population lives south of Alaska northern border.

I hesitated to be more specific, but figured (probably wrongly so, should always be explicit when stating things like this) that it's implicitly obvious it's about the ~49th parallel border. In fact you can draw the line well below that border[0].

Another way to put it is that half of Canadian's population lives ~between Toronto and Montréal.

0: https://i1.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/c...

Re: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC »

BbzzbB wrote: post #118
RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you should specify the northern border of the contiguous states. Otherwise, I bet 99% of Canada’s population lives south of Alaska northern border.

I hesitated to be more specific, but figured (probably wrongly so, should always be explicit when stating things like this) that it's implicitly obvious it's about the ~49th parallel border. In fact you can draw the line well below that border[0]. Another way to put it is that half of Canadian's population lives ~between Toronto and Montréal. 0: https://i1.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/c...

Really cool map!

Based on the map, another way to put it, is:

Most Canadians live south of Seattle.

Re: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?

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Post by SamBam »

avalys wrote: post #12
Izikiel43 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. 7 billion people => 7000 Million. 1% of that, 70 Million. Population of australia, 25.7 Million people. So not only less than 1%, less than 0.5%

Holy crap, Australia has approximately the same population as New York City. That's nearly an order of magnitude less than I would have guessed. I had no idea!

An order of magnitude! That would be imagining that Australia has >200 million people. Given that the US has a little more than 300 million, well... No, they aren't comparable.

Australia by an large is an inhospitable island with only a few pockets of population.

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