Where's the Rest of Our Stuff?!

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By lxxy

Hello everyone! I hope I'm still making progress. (Two step forwards, three steps back!) But I have a very interesting question today, and I really would like to hear your input!

My question is this: if there are 6.9 billion people on the planet, and it took far less of us to get to our technological evolution today....where's the rest of it?

Sea world? The Smithsonian? Amazon?! I don't know! What about you?

And while I'm at it, can I bug you for a few more?

How many people smoke? (I love to, thank you!) Mathematically speaking, if there are x number of humans alive, who work for cigarettes, how many man hours is that?

How many people love makeup? (It's an occasional joy here!) But,if we work for our makeup, and x number of people (mostly female, I'm beginning to find out..) wear makeup, how many man hours is that?

Also, whatever happened to Clear Pepsi?! Was I the only person who ever drank that? What about Coke Black? Ever tried it?! It's coffee and coke-a-cola! BZZT! How can you go wrong? Was I the only one drinking it too?!

Thanks for your time! I'm off to answer some comments and to read your worlds!

So, where is it?

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Mentalist acer Level 6 Commenter 15 months ago

The grand design of organizing stuff seems to be un-organized at best,leaving too many in survival mode in the aquisition of make-up and tobacco.;)

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lxxy Hub Author 15 months ago

Definitely a possibility! :) Thank you! I'll maul that over.

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The Old Firm Level 1 Commenter 15 months ago

There's a black hole located within 15 milliseconds of Eketahuna into which all dark and non dark artifacts (including those which are translucent and opaque) are sent by some little gnome in advertising, when deemed economically obsolescent. Once there, Myxlplyx turns them into low quality cell phones to overload IPv4; and encapsulated hot air, given in slow dissolving tablet form to politicians and other bureaucrats to overload our credence.

I hope this clarifies the problem. (The pills ARE rather addictive!)

Cheers,

TOF

Alex Hsieh 15 months ago

Weird... Never heard of coke black before. lol

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k@ri 15 months ago

I'm not sure where they are or why we haven't gotten further. I guess if we weren't so busy chipping away everyday, we may have more time to pay attention...What was the question? :D

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RDSPhD 15 months ago

Haha while I do like Clear Pepsi, coke blak clearly isn't my favorite beverage ;)

Maybe that's the reason why:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J-q-o6zqdY

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To Start Again 15 months ago

Oh Pepsi Clear...where have you gone? I had forgotten about that little treasure ;)

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agvulpes Level 3 Commenter 15 months ago

Ixxy, You sure posed a good question here! My simple answer is: "Its the red tape"

Cheers Mate :-)

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Shalini Kagal Level 4 Commenter 15 months ago

Questions, questions! Seriously, Ixxy....Clear Pepsi and Black Coke?????!!!!! :D

@TOF - love it and as an ex-advertising ol' bird, couldn't agree more!

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RunAbstract Level 3 Commenter 15 months ago

I liked clear Pepsi...

What a fun article!!!

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AskAshlie3433 15 months ago

Very creative Ixxy. I give you that. I wear makeup, I smoke X2, just kidding. I smoke cigs. I hate pepsi. I do wonder why we have evolved so much in the last 100 years and it took 1900 for the rest. Why is this? ET? Perhaps. For some reason, we got smart along the way since 1900. Civil War? Let me think George, if we spread out, we won't get hit as much. Common sense. Common sense came along in the 19th sentury. Cool hub.

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schoolgirlforreal Level 5 Commenter 13 months ago

Maybe in all the land fills, the junk..we so quickly accumulate , all the plastic crap..

Archaelogical things, at first it was biodegradeable like cow turd, animals, dead plants and animals, now we have crap like I said plastic, and modern man has corrupted the earth but it will fix itself. It's man who has messed up!!

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lxxy Hub Author 13 months ago

Hey RDSPHd seeing A.C. try it was funny. I loved coke blak, wish they didn't make a short run of it!

@To Start Again I remember the clear pepsi summer very well, 'cause we were more of a coke-a-cola house. So it was doubly different.

@Shalini questions are all that I seem to have. :)

@AskAshlie E.T.s? Ancient Aliens does a pretty good job convincing me that we're not alone, and weren't alone back in the day either.. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/ancient-aliens-seri there's a link to season one. I'm on the fence--being an alien myself! ;)

But you don't create a hub-bub over a downed flying saucer a la Roswell only to have more "trained" military identify it as a balloon! Also, you wouldn't take this well known wreckage straight off to Right Patterson for it to be expertly picked over if you already know it's Mogul debris.

That and few if any of the eyewitnesses at the field could be misconstrued to be a balloon--ie the physical material was not of earth.

As far as common sense goes, there was that pesky manifest destiny--the belief that white man would own the Americas from sea to shining sea. A bit of a pretense, but isn't plenty of the world?

@schoolgirlforreal

Perhaps man has messed this place up, but I think you're learning to live with yourselves. It is sad that there are heaps of garbage--hell--a whole land mass of it was toured around the world in the late 80s going from port to port looking for room.

But it's much simpler, I think. Just pick one item humans do and multiply it over a life time. Sleep, eat, etc..you get a ginormous picture of certain actions. :)

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Dim Flaxenwick Level 7 Commenter 11 months ago

l blame it all on the Bermuda Triangle.

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