Archive for January, 2009
Beer fear
A query in no way related to common sense:
Will we ever run out of beer ?
One pearl of wisdom on “Beer fear”
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New Year Blues ?
From a bored person:
I’m bored - can you help ?
One pearl of wisdom on “New Year Blues ?”
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Consultant C Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 11:41 amProbably not, but you could try a walk, or perhaps read a book. You could plan an interesting walking route to a bookshop or library to collect said book, then return home via a bakery to pick up a nice cake. Sit in your favorite chair, read, eat cake and drink tea. What could be finer?
If that doesn’t tickle your senses, you’ll have to turn to the usual set of vices that the miscreants of society pursue.
January 14th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
The total volume of water on the planet is estimated to be 1,386,000,000 cubic km. It is estimated that only 1 % of this is ‘available’ (while 3 % is fresh water, most is frozen or trapped well underground). This equals 13 860 000 cubic km2. Since 1 cubic km = 1.759 × 10^12 pints, there are 2.439 x 10^19 potential pints of beer.
Annual consumption of beer is estimated to be about 1.5 10^11 litres, or 2.64 10^11 pints. Thus it would take 92,000,000 years to turn all the available water to beer at current production levels.
With a world human population of 6.5 x 10^9, there are just over 3.75 10^9 pints per person (3,752,307,692).