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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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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,
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15 years ago)
but more people are related to him than joe schmo that cleaned the castle towers(
Lisette von Falcon, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:22,
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man, i love jesusi 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
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Lisette von Falcon, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:38,
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were you wearing something instead of trousers?(
Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:40,
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You've got two parents, each of your parents had two parents and so on and so onso 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.
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Kroney, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:33,
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By the time you go back 15 generations, the number is up to 65536 peopleand 15 generations is what, about 300 years? You're still only in 1711.
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Kroney, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:44,
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Go back another 5 generations and the number's at over 2 millionby 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.
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Kroney, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:47,
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No point, everybody alive today is related to Genghis Khan.And also Joe the cess pit cleaner. Fact.
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Kroney, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:49,
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awbut i was really starting to get interested in what you were saying
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Lisette von Falcon, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:55,
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