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Re: Google sheep view

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Post by kaybe »

omh wrote: post #8
masklinn wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In absolute numbers that's not even remotely true. According to FAOSTAT the undisputed top 1 is mainland China (175M) followed by Australia (75M), India (64M), Sudan (52M) and Iran (50M). New Zealand is down to 31M heads and it's been falling pretty much continually since the 1999 uptick to 46M heads. NZ may have the highest number of sheep per capita and highest sheep density (especially since FAOSTAT doesn't list W…

If we consider Wales separately then I think it would beat NZ on density. A quick search suggests 8.9M sheep in Wales[1], around 430s/km^2 , NZ is only about 120s/km^2. Per capita though NZ beats Wales, and probably any other country. [1] http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/sheep-lamb-popu...

Seeing that they use google streetview I think we need a metric of sheep per road kilometer.

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Post by temo4ka »

codeshaman wrote: post #17

After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30 The video has 8 million views. Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting ... Why ? Projects like these make me both happy and scared - happy, because life is so good that people have nothing bet…

“Mad” is a relative term. Is it sane to obsess over constantly staying productive? Is it normal to feel guilt when doing some silly, pointless things that bring you joy? In my vocabulary, “mad” are people who take life too seriously.

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Post by yellowstuff »

codeshaman wrote: post #17

After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30 The video has 8 million views. Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting ... Why ? Projects like these make me both happy and scared - happy, because life is so good that people have nothing bet…

I don't see this as a commentary on modern times. I'd guess that if you pick random person from any era since the dawn of humanity and any location on Earth, the odds are pretty good that they'd be interested in watching 2 cats fighting.

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Post by livingparadox »

noondip wrote: post #9

If you enjoyed these, also be sure to check out Jon Rafman's http://9-eyes.com/

Some of those are such beautiful pictures. All from a truck just taking pictures of everything. If an infinite amount of monkeys can write Shakespeare, then I suppose its inevitable that millions of random pictures could produce these.

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Post by teraflop »

codeshaman wrote: post #17

After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30 The video has 8 million views. Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting ... Why ? Projects like these make me both happy and scared - happy, because life is so good that people have nothing bet…

At any given time, some large fraction of the human race is engaged in pointless amusing diversions, and that's been true for as long as we've had leisure time. The only difference now is that it's become much easier to measure.

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Post by marknutter »

JohannesH wrote: post #42
codeshaman wrote: post #17

After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30 The video has 8 million views. Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting ... Why ? Projects like these make me both happy and scared - happy, because life is so good that people have nothing bet…

I posted a 9 second video of me pushing a coke can over a table making a sound that's similar to Chewbacca ( https://youtu.be/myhYNsRXYgs ) a few days ago. So far it's been seen 750.000 times on youtube and about 3.000.000 times on facebook. This is about 416 days worth of people watching this video (wasting time). However, I think it is the wrong perspective to take. People do all sorts of "seemingly" non-productive…

Ha, nice, a saw that on Reddit when it got popular there. Fun to watch something blow up you created, no matter how trivial it may seem.
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