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hatethefuture: Prepare For The Future No. 1: Overcrowding Hate The Future is proud to present Prepare For The Future, a new feature designed to get you thinking critically about how to handle the terrible, terrible future that awaits us all. With the world’s population on track to hit 9 billion within the next thirty years, crowded things (trains, concerts, 8th Avenue in midtown Manhattan on Thursday night when the Ed Hardy bros have already been kicked out of each of their ten favorite bars in succession) are going to be choked with intolerable amounts of easily despised people.  Stranger Rage will be at an all-time high. This Malthusian horror raises an obvious question: in a crowded setting, how many people could you shove to the ground before being subdued yourself? Extra credit follow-up: would you shove just anybody, or only people smaller than yourself?  Show your work.

hatethefuture:

Prepare For The Future No. 1: Overcrowding

Hate The Future is proud to present Prepare For The Future, a new feature designed to get you thinking critically about how to handle the terrible, terrible future that awaits us all.

With the world’s population on track to hit 9 billion within the next thirty years, crowded things (trains, concerts, 8th Avenue in midtown Manhattan on Thursday night when the Ed Hardy bros have already been kicked out of each of their ten favorite bars in succession) are going to be choked with intolerable amounts of easily despised people.  Stranger Rage will be at an all-time high.

This Malthusian horror raises an obvious question: in a crowded setting, how many people could you shove to the ground before being subdued yourself?

Extra credit follow-up: would you shove just anybody, or only people smaller than yourself?  Show your work.

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