The
world and we
If we were to reduce
the
entire world's population to a village of 100,
retaining the
proportions
of the people groups, the village would consist of:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Americans (North
and
South)
8 Africans
52 women
48 men
70 non-Whites
30 Whites
70 non-Christians
30 Christians
6 people would have
59%
of the wealth, and all 6 would be from the USA
80 would have poor
housing
70 would be
illiterate
50 would be
undernourished
1 would die
2 would be born
1 would have a
computer
1 (only 1) would
have an
academic title
How thankful
are we?
If you woke up this
morning
healthier instead of more ill, you are luckier than the 1 million
people
who will die in the next week;
If you have never
experienced
a war, the loneliness of imprisonment, the pain of torture or hunger,
then
you are luckier than the 500 million people experiencing those things
at
the moment;
If you can go to
church without
fear of being threatened with imprisonment or death, then you are
luckier
than the 3 billion people who cannot;
If you have food
in your
refrigerator, clothes, a roof over your head and a bed to sleep in,
then
you are richer than 75% of the world's population;
If you have a
bank account,
money in your pocket or small change in a box, you belong to the 8% of
the wealthy people in the world;
THIS IS ONLY
HUMOROUS
PLEASE DO NOT TAKE IT LITERALLY OR WRONGLY
HEAVEN IS HOTTER
THAN
HELL?
The temperature of
Heaven
can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26,
"Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and
the
light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days."
Thus Heaven receives
from
the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7
(49)
times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all.
The light we
receive from
the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we
can
ignore that ... The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the
point
where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by
radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by
radiation.
Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is
the absolute temperature of the earth (300K), gives H as 798K (525C).
The
exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed ...
[However] Revelations
21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their
part
in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten
brimstone
means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point,
444.6C.
We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.
-- From
"Applied Optics" vol. 11, A14, 1972
According to a news
report,
a certain school in Streatham, South London was recently faced with a
unique
problem. A number of girls were beginning to use lipstick and
would
put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on
their
lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of
little
lip prints.
Every night, the
maintenance
man would remove them and the next day, the girls would put them back.
Finally the Head decided that something had to be done.
So she called all
the girls
to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She
explained
that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the
custodian
who had to clean the mirrors every night.
To demonstrate how
difficult
it was to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to clean the
mirrors. He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet,
and cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no
lip
prints on the mirror.
There are
Teachers, and then
there are Educators.
"What is a
committee? A
group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."
~ Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960
"With every
passing hour,
our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular
cluster
13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who
continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress." ~ Ransom
K.
Ferm
"Karate is a form
of martial
arts in which people who have had years and years of training can,
using
only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history
of the world." Dave Barry
"I am not a
vegetarian because
I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." A.
Whitney
Brown
"A great many
people think
they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
William
James
"We should be
careful to
get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it, and stop there;
lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will
never
sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will
never sit down on a cold one anymore." ~ Mark Twain
"There's so much
comedy on
television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?" ~ Dick Cavett,
mocking
the TV-violence debate
"If a woman has
to choose
between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will
choose
to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on
base." ~ Dave Barry
"No matter how
great your
triumphs or how tragic your defeats, approximately one billion Chinese
couldn't care less."
~ Lazlo's Chinese
Relativity
Axiom
"Some mornings, it's
just
not worth chewing through the leather straps." ~ Emo Phillips
"Experience is
that marvelous
thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
~ F. P. Jones
"Human beings,
who are almost
unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others,
are
also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." ~ Douglas
Adams, Last Chance to See
"Computers in the
future
may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
~ "Popular
Mechanics," forecasting
the relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is
a world
market for maybe five computers."
~ Thomas Watson,
chairman
of IBM, 1943
"I have traveled
the length
and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can
assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
~ The editor in
charge of
business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what is it
good for?"
~ Engineer at the
Advanced
Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip
"There is no
reason anyone
would want a computer in their home."
~ Ken Olson,
president,
chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"This 'telephone'
has too
many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of
communication.
The device is inherently of no value to us."
~ Western Union
internal
memo, 1876
"The wireless
music box has
no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to
nobody
in particular?"
~ David Sarnoff's
associates
in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s
"The concept is
interesting
and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must
be feasible."
~ A Yale University
management
professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable
overnight
delivery service. Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.
"I'm just glad
it'll be Clark
Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."
~ Gary Cooper on his
decision
not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind"
"A cookie store
is a bad
idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy
cookies,
not soft and chewy cookies like you make."
~ Response to Debbi
Fields'
idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies
"We don't like
their sound,
and guitar music is on the way out."
~ Decca Recording
Co. rejecting
the Beatles, 1962
"Heavier-than-air
flying
machines are impossible."
~ Lord Kelvin,
president,
Royal Society, 1895
"If I had thought
about it,
I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of
examples
that said you can't do this."
~ Spencer Silver on
the
work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads
"So we went to
Atari and
said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your
parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you.
We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And
they
said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we
don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
~ Apple Computer
Inc. founder
Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve
Wozniak's personal computer
"You want to have
consistent
and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be
done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent
muscle
development as an unalterable condition of weight training."
~ Response to Arthur
Jones,
who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus
"Drill for oil?
You mean
drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." ~ Drillers
who
Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859
"The bomb will
never go off.
I speak as an expert in explosives." ~ Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic
Bomb Project
"This fellow
Charles Lindbergh
will never make it. He's doomed." ~ Harry Guggenheim, millionaire
aviation
enthusiast
"Stocks have
reached what
looks like a permanently high plateau." ~ Irving Fisher, Professor of
Economics,
Yale University, 1929
"Airplanes are
interesting
toys but of no military value." ~ Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of
Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre
"Man will never
reach the
moon regardless of all future scientific advances." ~ Dr. Lee De
Forest,
inventor of the vacuum tube and father of television
"Everything that
can be invented
has been invented." ~ Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of
Patents,
1899
