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Michael Stembera
1995
History 01-Nov-2000: Allocation checks
07-May-1999: New savers added for y2k and second millennium countdowns.
Tom Schmidt
04-Dec-1998: New savers added for hiv, veg, and lab.
hiv one due to Kenneth Stailey
10-Aug-1998: Population Explosion and Tropical Forest Countdown stuff
I tried to get precise numbers but they may be off a few
percent. Whether or not, its still pretty scary IMHO.
Although I am a US citizen... I have the default for area in
metric. David Bagley
10-May-1997: Compatible with xscreensaver
29-Aug-1995: Written.
Some of my calculations laid bare... (I have a little problem with
the consistency of the numbers I got at the Bronx Zoo but proportions
were figured to be 160.70344 people a minute increase not 180 and
35.303144 hectares (87.198766 acres) a minute decrease not 247 (100 acres).
So I am going with these more conservative numbers.)
Time 0 is 0:00:00 1 Jan 1970 at least according to hard core UNIX fans
Minutes from 1 Jan 1970 to 21 Jun 1985: 8137440
Minutes from 21 Jun 1985 to 12 Jul 1988: 6867360
Total: 15004800
Population Explosion Saver (popex)
3,535,369,000 people (figured by extrapolation) 1 Jan 1970
4,843,083,596 people 21 Jun 1985 (Opening of Wild Asia in the Bronx Zoo)
5,946,692,000 people 12 Jul 1998 (David Bagley visits zoo ;) )
180 people a minute increase in global population (I heard 170 also)
260,000 people a day increase in global population
Tropical Forest Countdown Saver (forest)
1,184,193,000 hectares (figured by extrapolation) 1 Jan 1970
(2,924,959,000 acres)
896,916,700 hectares 21 Jun 1985 (Opening of Wild Asia in the Bronx Zoo)
(2,215,384,320 acres)
654,477,300 hectares 12 Jul 1998 (David Bagley visits zoo ;) )
(1,616,559,000 acres)
247 hectares a minute lost forever (1 hectare = 2.47 acres)
HIV Infection Counter Saver (hiv) (stats from http://www.unaids.org/)
33,600,000 31 Dec 1999 living w/HIV
16,300,000 31 Dec 1999 dead
49,900,000 31 Dec 1999 total infections
5,600,000 new infections in 1999
10.6545 infections/min
-118,195,407 virtual cases (figured by extrapolation) 1 Jan 1970
(this is a result of applying linear tracking to a non-linear event)
Animal Research Counter Saver (lab)
Approximately 17-22 million animals are used in research each year.
OK so assume 17,000,000 / 525960 = 32.32184957 per minute
http://www.fcs.uga.edu/~mhulsey/GDB.html
Animal Consumation Counter Saver (veg)
Approximately 5 billion are consumed for food annually.
OK 5,000,000,000 / 525960 = 9506.426344209 per minute
http://www.fcs.uga.edu/~mhulsey/GDB.html
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