What's the smallest country that can fit everyone standing six feet apart?
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Re: What's the smallest country that can fit everyone standing six feet apart?
#2Things are pretty tight in Singapore, I wonder if you take into account places not safe to stand like roads and places occupied by walls, trees, bank vaults etc., if it would be impossible. Almost 6 million people in 7.8 billion square feet if it was just flat land = approx 1300 square feet per person if my math is right.
Re: What's the smallest country that can fit everyone standing six feet apart?
#3Things are pretty tight in Singapore, I wonder if you take into account places not safe to stand like roads and places occupied by walls, trees, bank vaults etc., if it would be impossible. Almost 6 million people in 7.8 billion square feet if it was just flat land = approx 1300 square feet per person if my math is right.
The density needs to exceed 223,563/sq. mile (says the essay).
Singapore's density at 20,445/sq. mile is less than 1/2 that of Monaco, says its reference 5, which is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen... .
Thus, only 10% of the land is needed, giving plenty of space for roads, etc.
Of course, if you include walls then you can place people on either side of the wall without an infection problem, so that changes the calculation considerably.
FWIW, I wondered if Vatican City could reach the limit during a papal audience. It looks like perhaps 15,000 people could be there for one? That alone gives a density of 88K/sq. mile (bearing in mind that Vatican City has nearly 6 popes per square mile - or nearly 12 if we include Popes Emeritus.)
Then there's the staff, and the people visiting the museum, and others beyond the estimated population of 1,000.
Even with those, it doesn't seem like it comes close to 223,563/sq. mile.
Re: What's the smallest country that can fit everyone standing six feet apart?
#4Things are pretty tight in Singapore, I wonder if you take into account places not safe to stand like roads and places occupied by walls, trees, bank vaults etc., if it would be impossible. Almost 6 million people in 7.8 billion square feet if it was just flat land = approx 1300 square feet per person if my math is right.
The density needs to exceed 223,563/sq. mile (says the essay). Singapore's density at 20,445/sq. mile is less than 1/2 that of Monaco, says its reference 5, which is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen... . Thus, only 10% of the land is needed, giving plenty of space for roads, etc. Of course, if you include walls then you can place people on either side of the wall without an infection probl…
I stand corrected, also the model does not take into account the Z axis, magnitudes of area added by highrises.
Re: What's the smallest country that can fit everyone standing six feet apart?
#5I may have missed something but shouldn't the radius be 3 feet? With a 6 foot radius, wouldn't everyone be 12 feet apart? The maths is new to me (I was OK up to πr2!) so this might be my mistake.
Re: What's the smallest country that can fit everyone standing six feet apart?
#6I may have missed something but shouldn't the radius be 3 feet? With a 6 foot radius, wouldn't everyone be 12 feet apart? The maths is new to me (I was OK up to πr2!) so this might be my mistake.
The subject would be in the center of the circle.
Re: What's the smallest country that can fit everyone standing six feet apart?
#7I find impossible to read those kind of things when you use the United States customary units
Re: What's the smallest country that can fit everyone standing six feet apart?
#8If we're packing circles, don't we need to take into account that the 6ft distance is to the next person -- that is the centre of the next circle, rather than the boundary of it?
That means circles of radius 3ft, for a total of 8,693 square miles.
Re: What's the smallest country that can fit everyone standing six feet apart?
#9I find impossible to read those kind of things when you use the United States customary units
At least they’re not using “football fields” as a measurement unit...
Re: What's the smallest country that can fit everyone standing six feet apart?
#10I may have missed something but shouldn't the radius be 3 feet? With a 6 foot radius, wouldn't everyone be 12 feet apart? The maths is new to me (I was OK up to πr2!) so this might be my mistake.
The subject would be in the center of the circle.
Indeed, they would, with 6 feet to the edge of their circle, and another 6 feet from that edge to the next person.