i think i heard somewhere that like 40% of the population is related to him down the line

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:12, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

if that is true
then the same could be said of anyone alive at that time who had a few kids.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:12, Reply)

no mate i'm talking about now

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:13, Reply)

I know, I'm saying that people alive now are related to people alive back then

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:14, Reply)

but more people are related to him than joe schmo that cleaned the castle towers

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:22, Reply)

Actually, it'd be about the same.

( Kroney, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:29, Reply)

who's got the other 20% then?

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:31, Reply)

Jesus

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:32, Reply)

man, i love jesus
i went out without trousers this morning and it started raining and it was like jesus was telling me to get inside and put trousers on
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:38, Reply)

were you wearing something instead of trousers?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:40, Reply)

pants

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:47, Reply)

You've got two parents, each of your parents had two parents and so on and so on
so does everybody else alive today. You don't have to go too far back before the amount of people required to pass genetic material on to you exceeds that of the population of that time.
( Kroney, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:33, Reply)

REALLY
what the...i don't even
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:37, Reply)

By the time you go back 15 generations, the number is up to 65536 people
and 15 generations is what, about 300 years? You're still only in 1711.
( Kroney, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:44, Reply)

Go back another 5 generations and the number's at over 2 million
by now you're in 1611 and the population of the UK is only about 6 million at that point. Two more generations and at about 1540, you're up to 8 million people required and the populaton stands at about 5 million people.

Genghis Khan lived in the 1250s or thereabouts.
( Kroney, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:47, Reply)

go on

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:48, Reply)

No point, everybody alive today is related to Genghis Khan.
And also Joe the cess pit cleaner. Fact.
( Kroney, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:49, Reply)

aw
but i was really starting to get interested in what you were saying
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:55, Reply)

No, I think it was more along the lines of him having more kids than anyone, ever
even more than Josef Fritzl.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:13, Reply)

probably had some impact
I'm fairly sure that they talked about it on QI using Charlemagne as an example, and said that it wasn't just because he had loads of kids, but just because he had some, and it was really long ago.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:18, Reply)