How do we all fit?

[iago]

So according to revelation 21:16, heaven is a cube with 12,000 mile-big sides. That's 2.54358061 × 10²³ square feet. The total number of people that have ever existed is estimated to be between 90 and 110 billion.

So assuming 110 billion people have existed and they all got into heaven, each of them has 2,312,346,009,600 cubic feet to himself. Let's assume that God and other Essential Services somehow takes up 2/3 of the space. That's still  1,541,564,006,400 cubic feet per person.

Clearly, that's too much room.

So I propose we figure out why God made so much room:
- Do aliens get into heaven?
- Do people from parallel universes get into heaven?
- Do our pets get into heaven?
- Do bugs (mosquitoes, cockroaches, etc.) get into heaven?
- Is heaven a big empty place?

What do you think is the best explanation? Can you come up with something better?

[Hitmen]

Can anyone calculate how many people will have lived by the time the sun explodes and wipes our race out of existence?

[iago]

I think you'd have more luck calculating the number of humans that'll be born in the next ~100 years. That should be long enough for us to wipe ourselves out

[igimo1]

I've read that the amount of people living today far outnumbers the total amount that have lived before us, at any other time.

[iago]

That is true, at no period in history have there been more people alive.

However, the total number of people that have ever lived is higher than the current population, by a lot.

Make sense?

[igimo1]

If the numbers that are listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_population are true, and the results are plotted, it would be closer to 14 billion. Anyway, seeing as human population growth is increasing almost exponentially, I don't see that being much of a problem

[iago]

If the numbers that are listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_population are true, and the results are plotted, it would be closer to 14 billion. Anyway, seeing as human population growth is increasing almost exponentially, I don't see that being much of a problem

That's the source I used:

Estimates of the number of human beings who have ever lived on Earth constitute an extremely large range, with low estimates around 45 billion, and the highest estimates topping out around 125 billion. Many of the more robust estimates fall into the range of 90 to 110 billion humans.

110 billion is the number I used.

[Joe]

Can anyone calculate how many people will have lived by the time the sun explodes and wipes our race out of existence?

No need. If that's what will end our existence, and not the wars of the tribulation and the big Dragon vs Lamb fight, then you might as well not even care.

[rabbit]

the big Dragon vs Lamb fight

I knew the Bible was retarded, but that just sounds like Scientology.  WTF?

[Joe]

the big Dragon vs Lamb fight

I knew the Bible was retarded, but that just sounds like Scientology.  WTF?

It's from the book of Revelation, which was basically St. John losing his mind in symbolism, but the Lamb (Jesus) kills a 7-Headed, 10-Horned, 10-Crowned dragon (Satan). If I remember when I'm not lazy, I'll try finding it.

[rabbit]

I officially declare the Bible stupid.

[Joe]

I officially declare the Bible stupid.

I officially declare you stupid. The bible makes more sense to me than literature from the 16th and 17th centuries, which you're fond of IIRC.

[Sidoh]

I don't think the bible makes "sense" unless you assume some pretty fundamental things and since I'm pretty sure rabbit doesn't share your beliefs in the slightest and I'm also pretty sure that you're aware of that, I don't see how that comes close to being a reasonable counter-argument.

[iago]

I officially declare the Bible stupid.

I officially declare you stupid. The bible makes more sense to me than literature from the 16th and 17th centuries, which you're fond of IIRC.

Hahaha. I love how you're comparing the bible to fiction!

[rabbit]

I officially declare you stupid.

Wrong.

The bible makes more sense to me than literature from the 16th and 17th centuries, which you're fond of IIRC.

What?  Who's ass did you pull that out of?  And just because you believe in a book with a bunch of contradictory tales of prejudism and discrimination doesn't mean it makes more sense than random stuff from the nth century.

[Beowulf]

I've heard different statistics then that...about under a million being able to fit. So this is interesting. Did you actually look in a few diff version bibles yourself to draw this conclusion?

[iago]

No, most of it is just copied verbatim from a book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

[Joe]

NIV:

The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia[a]in length, and as wide and high as it is long.

A Greek stadia is 185 meters. Ends up as 1,379 miles.

KJV:

And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

A furlong is 660 feet. That ends up at 1,500 miles.

NLV:

He found out that the city was as wide as it was long and it was as high as it was wide. It was as long as a man could walk in fifty days. It was the same each way.

I have asthma. Figure that one out yourself.