Is this 'WW2 Fact' correct?

[Bryan_Ekers]

@Disposable Hero

…but when I first heard the illustration above it really threw me, for months after being told about it the random thought would strike me at home, “Yep, they’re still marching past” and it gave me the slightest glimpse of how massive a number of people fifty-million really is.

Ah, well, that’s different if you’re going to actually experience the passing time.

[aruvqan]

@Romeo_and_Whatsherface

Originally Posted by Bryan Ekers View Post
Not really. It’s like saying “The deficit is now five trillion dollars. That means if there was only one guy in this country, he’d have to kick in five trillion dollars!” Basically, the illustration just numbs the readers with its scale. If you want a better example, I suggest “The world population around 1939 was around 2.1 billion. In the few years leading up to and following around 50 million were killed in war, or about 2%. Now picture a group of fifty children on an afternoon field trip. Before it is over, one of them will be dead.”

Way to minimize the horror.

Olympia. These are the stands at the Berlin 36 Olympics.

Within 10 years, a majority of the German/Austrian men there between 15 and 40 will be dead. Probably about 65%.

[Mr.Slant]

@Martin_Hyde

It’s not pretty when it happens.

Makes us tired, too.

[Uncertain]

@Ludovic

@runner pat

How would a dead person march?

We’ll see in about 2 years, when I post to this thread again.

That would be a zombie thread.

[Chessic_Sense]

There are two ways I remember how many Xs are in a Y when it comes to time. This for years and this for days.

[Polycarp]

@runner pat

How would a dead person march?

Wait a few years until somebody resurrects this thread…

[Dahu]

nm.

[Slithy_Tove]

I guess I’d use the back door for a couple of years, but towards the end I’d stay in my living room waiting for Hitler to come by. Then I’d yell “Hey Hitler! Fuck you!”

[Yorikke]

@Bryan_Ekers

At that rate we may have to close this world. In sixty years.

Thanks for literally making me laugh out loud, Charles…

Joe

[Colibri]

@sh1bu1

The math isn’t that hard. No algebra of funny looking symbols, but it does require you to actually think.

@Bryan_Ekers

sh1bu1 made an arithmetic error - 30 times 60 is 1800, not 180.

@sh1bu1

Or 8640 if I do the math. :smack:

I think this mathematical extension to Gaudere’s Rule is sufficiently exemplary so that no remark from me on the inadvisability of snarkiness in GQ is really necessary.

Colibri
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