Crazy Relativescurvylittlegoth writes, "My Grandma is crazy, crazy mad. As well as regularly putting curses on us all, she once fell asleep in the armchair on a sunny afternoon, Barley Wine in one hand, Peter Stuyveson in the other, only to wake up several hours later to a Darth Vader sounding fireman. She thought she was in HELL as the smoke and flames billowed round her..."
Are any of your relatives this loopy?
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chthonic, Thu 5 Jul 2007, 15:59)
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FactsThere are roughly 6 and a half billion people living on planet Earth right now. Each one of those people has two parents. Each of those two parents had two parents and this number doubles each time you step back a generation, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 and so on. That means that going back a mere 300 years will require over a thousand people to contribute genetic material to create one person in 2007.
Conversely, with each generation you step back, there are fewer people on Earth.
This means that there will come a point where the amount of people required to create you have increased to equal or surpass the amount of people alive on Earth at that position in history.
That means that every single person on Earth is your cousin, albeit distant. It also means that our gene pool is rather more shallow than people would like to think. Ergo, the human race is somewhat inbred by definition thus explaining the worrying prediliction to go nuts and all of us are related to each and every one of them.
This was a public service announcement.
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Kroney, Tue 10 Jul 2007, 10:18,
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