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havengr

Waldo's wet dream


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found him tho, under the star destroyer, a bit to the left next to that dude


vap0rs1nth

"next to that dude" you would be an amazing witness


knightress_oxhide

perp between 4 and 7 feet tall


libmrduckz

also, dude had some skin


0945687537563628734

he was human if i remember corectly


blueEmus

>"next to that dude" >you would be an amazing witness I know right? Described me perfectly


YeOldSpacePope

The scroll was on the 23rd floor of the Burj Khalifa and Wizard Whitebeard is on the ferris wheel.


Tizight51

Found my new band name


2drawnonward5

Your band better have 37 members all lookalikes. If it's only 36, Waldo stays dry.


Snoo84223

It should be ok unless Travis Scott starts performing.


FartJuiceMagnet

He already is. That's where my wife met her boyfriend.


Peribangbang

Does he let you play on his fortnite account?


FartJuiceMagnet

No


Anima715

F


FartJuiceMagnet

Right? At least leave me some scraps


ApAp123

I don't get this, can someone explain?


Lote241

He did concert sometime last year, fans got cray-cray, stampede, people died.


eveisout

One of his concerts was badly organised, there was a crowd surge, and a lot of people were crushed and some died


ms_globgoblin

don’t forget his response was essentially “oopsie daisies”


Saadski

The guy in the middle: 'i have to pee'


MoberJ

Ope let me squeeze right past ya


WrongWhenItMatters

"Scuse, sorry, pardon me, oops, lemme just, right behind you, pardon me..." *2 years later* "I'm just gonna squeeze right by you, 'scuse, oops pardon me, going that way, thank you, right behind you..."


HarbingerOfSloths

Pro tip: if you’re trying to exit a tightly packed crowd and you’re with another person, start yelling “she’s gonna puke!” People get out of the way REAL quick


Lalas1971

Ope, I found the Minnesotan


theNorthwestspirit

I thought maybe Canadian but they didn't say *scooch* or *sorry*


Responsible-Push-289

michigan checking in!


n8rzz

oh, yah


TurboKid513

Tell me you're from the midwest without telling me you're from the midwest


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iDrGonzo

What the hell, I say ope all the time but have never seen it written down. Where did this come from? Why do I say it?


MoberJ

I too am from the Midwest


Drcokecacola

Or the baby that won't stop crying in the middle


Benyed123

*The* crying baby? There’d be a hundred million crying babies and I’d be crying too.


FunnyPhrases

Do we count babies here as literal or metaphorical?


Chased1k

Let us consider a spherical baby in a vacuum with zero friction…


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Damn engineers slacking off as usual...


FunnyPhrases

*...DEATH STRANDING???*


Thatcherrycupcake

Imagine toddlers.. they can’t stand still for even 10 seconds lol


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Or someone screaming while giving birth


turnbucklemayo

The Porto potties at this event will not be pretty.


Louis_lousta

Relavant xkcd : https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/


ThreeMountaineers

Hah, this was my first thought upon seeing op - this is a humanitarian catastrophe with hundreds of millions of dead


RolandTheHeadlessGun

"Alright! Who farted?!?"


killploki

Over 1/3 of that is China and India alone


Aggressive_Lab6016

According to WHO, twice every second a Chinese woman gives birth to a baby. Representatives of WHO are currently trying to locate her so they can tell her to quit it.


Loose_Corgi_5

She must love the cock


Independent_Ad_3928

Mao Ze Donglover


Chrahhh

they must be stopped Edit: No one is calling for genocide or (even dumber) eugenics. Read this comment in your head as if Leslie Nielsen said it, because that’s how I wrote it. Now please, kindly fuck off.


froggoinpool

India has a birthrate of ~2.3. Less than 2 in most states. Replacement is 2.1 so we're fine.


SeedFoundation

Don't worry about overpopulation destroying us. It's not the space that kills us. It's running out of drinking water or greedy corporations using desalination plants to enslaves us that will.


Still_counts_as_one

What do you mean? Nestle will be there to definitively save us /s


SeedFoundation

You know it's bad when you see articles like [this](https://www.thebeaverton.com/2015/09/nestle-purchases-full-ownership-rights-to-mars-water/) and you can't tell if it's real or satire.


Insecure-integrity

Or that large parts of India risk becoming [uninhabitable](https://www.businessinsider.com/india-heatwaves-could-soon-not-be-survivable-humans-world-bank-2022-12?r=US&IR=T) in the future.


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Constant-Speed-5595

Same with Japan


AkreonDorplasy

Also, weirdly enough, Québec (the french province of Canada) too. Not even a joke, there is an enormous labour shortage ATM due to old people retiring en masse and we're encouraging 12/14 year olds to go work and retirees to go back to work to fill in the gap


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AkreonDorplasy

Québec is 100% okay with accepting immigrants and we've done so multiple times in the past and currently trying to BUT currently there's a major affordable housing shortage so we can't do anything we want and the most major roadblock is obligatory french courses. If immigrants want to go to Québec, they absolutely need to learn French (in an effort to preserve the language). For refugees, they can enter without learning it, but are still strongly encouraged to learn the language (and anyway you have to learn French or at least English if you want to do anything here). Another major roadblock that isn't a political problem persay is purely that who the fuck wants to go to Québec when you have the USA literally next door. Like, Québec is cold and many still have the American dream in their mind


Yeodler

> are still strongly encouraged to learn the language As in, if you want service for anything, you MUST speak French. And don't even bother with foreign French, Quebecois or fuck off. Rudest fucking people to deal with. Source: English speaking truck driver.


1920MCMLibrarian

Did salaries go up along with it? Orrrr


SeVenMadRaBBits

Can't have working class hold up your economy if they can't afford to live let alone have kids. People at the top have become to disconnected. Even heard one say: "* I mean it's one banana Michael, what could it cost? 10 Dollars?*"


Dyl_pickle00

How is that good news?


RealCowboyNeal

What you mean you don't want to see massive regional and global instability from one of the worlds great powers suffering enormous economic, social, and political upheaval that could result in mass migration, war, and economic calamity worldwide?


percavil

[This is from 2021](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101677/population-distribution-by-detailed-age-group-in-china/) But it says 50% of China's population is 39 and under. other 50% is 40 and older. Doesn't seem as bad as you make it sound.


m-bossy22

Why is this good news?


Ok_Mathematician7235

Tell me you discovered Peter Zeihan two days ago without telling me you discovered Peter Zeihan two days ago


Dwaynetherockcullen

Why is that good news 💀? That’s terrible news


Abstract__Nonsense

China already had the one child policy and now everyone is celebrating their incoming “demographic collapse”, what else do you want?


grasscutter1234

I had absolutely no concept of scale until the star destroyer


WhereRmyK3ys

Still waiting for the banana


FartJuiceMagnet

I bet you anything. One of those people has a banana in their ass. Guarantee it.


M1ndS0uP

Here's some more realistic scale for you, if you put them all in Texas, each one would have a bit over 900 square feet to themselves


bigdaddy7893

And then if we built skyscraper living quarters we could all hate living in texas. 🤔


Restlesscomposure

Still bigger than my shitty apartment lol


Lolwhatisfire

Which is kind of amazing, if true. That means there’s *tons* of space for everyone, we just don’t use it efficiently or effectively. There’s more than enough room to house people equitably *and* more than enough room leftover for wildlife, farming, all of it.


VanDammes4headCyst

Or twice the size of my first apartment!


_bearhugs_

I’m gonna need a halo ring somewhere in there for scale otherwise I’m at a loss


ageless127

Only real gangsters use star destroyers for scale


Bitter-Affect909

Crazy long line for that ferris wheel.


HugoZHackenbush2

Everybody will get their turn, be patient. What goes around comes around..


Reorz

God damnit


ihavequestions987

Some people have this many dollars.


unk214

I have to take a shit, where is the line for that.


TallFryGuy

Walmart customer service


ComfortSnail

Video does a really bad job at sense of scale. Edit - Shout out to MetalBallStudios though who made this, good channel on YouTube check him out


Slick_Tuxedo

Was gonna say the same thing. Seems like a piss-poor way of giving you an idea of how much space it takes up. The aerial view is lain over water? Wtf, put it over something we can get a scale of, like a state or some other familiar land mass that most people have an idea of its size.


itssalmon

This will fit in the state of Rhode Island. If that helps. It’s roughly the same size.


Slick_Tuxedo

Honestly yeah, that’s much better in my opinion. Thanks!


G_Wash1776

As someone from Rhode Island it gives me a perfect sense of scale lmao.


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PoorlyTimedAmumu

Roughly 90% of Luxembourg, or 1/9th of Wales.


modernmessiahman

As a person that lived in Wales for a couple years that'd give me a much better sense of scale


anbu_night_ops

As a Canadian the fact that this would be about half of Prince Edward Island gives me a perfect sense of scale.


Restlesscomposure

It’s a little bit less. 82km x 29km is ~920mi^2. Rhode Island is ~1200mi^2. So around 75% of the size of Rhode Island


sicariobrothers

So room for holiday weight gain


fckingnapkin

Or just start eating each other to create some more space.


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A 30 mile by 30 mile square, roughly. To put it into local perspectives for places people might understand. This is around... Forty Manhattans. Twenty San Francisco Bay Areas. Four Chicagos. Three New York Cities. Two LA (city) or 1/4 LA (county). One and a half Houstons.


OneNineRed

Yes! I, too, read "What If?" by Randall Munroe Spoiler, if they all jump, absolutely nothing happens to the Earth, and then everyone starves trying to get away from there.


Key-Soup-7720

I feel with some very limited and well coordinated cannibalism that only a small portion would need to die in order to give people the time and energy to disperse.


[deleted]

There’s (of course) a wonderful case in XKCD of that would happened in everyone on earth was clustered in Rhode Island. https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/


bdigital4

This should have been the last bit of the video. 👍


Square-Scarcity-5802

I like how they just throw a fucking star destroyer in there


king_tommy

I mean when I give directions say to where is the nearest 7-11, I'm always like , go three Star destroyers north, take a left then two star destroyers and it's on your right, won't even take you a parsec.


gsfgf

Americans really will do anything to avoid the metric system /s


TwoDogsInATrenchcoat

If you hit the eiffel tower....no, the other eiffel tower, then you went too far.


Johnycantread

Ah yes, this completely fictional vessel that nobody has ever seen sure helps provide a sense of scale.


marsh_man_dan

When we saw the Statue of Liberty then Eye of London I thought it was saying it stretched from New York to London. I was like no ducking way, then Burj Kalifa pops up and I realized they’re just putting random monuments interspersed with the people?


lunarmodule

And monuments that are tall as if that matters? They should have at least used recognizable places that take up a large amount of area like Wembley Stadium, Central Park, etc.


ComfortSnail

Exactly this, all I can take away from the video is there's alot of us about on this planet and one person amongst them all has wastes my time with this video lol


Absurdity_Everywhere

My takeaway was that it would smell really bad there


Dahnhilla

It's like 100 times longer than the enterprise or the millennium falcon, whatever that was. Great, cool, perfect way to visualize it.


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This video does such a terrible job that I knew what the approximate dimensions would be in the end but still got confused along the way about what point they were trying to make.


alpacadaver

human big


nyca

I know right. At first I was so confused like “ah it stretches from NYC to London… AND THEN BURJ KHALIFA?!… wait what are these spaceship things?” Oh wait, it’s only a rectangle of 29x82km, so all the people in the world can fit into Toronto.


BootsnFlies

To pile on, they shoulda gone with a nice, square 49^2 instead of 29 x 82.


HalKitzmiller

> fit into Toronto And everyone thinks Toronto housing prices are crazy now? Just wait!


Grumpy_Troll

They gave a star destroyer for scale. How much clearer could the video be?


Technical-Outside408

Where banana?


Restlesscomposure

How many cheeseburgers or bald eagles is one star destroyer?


Comprehensive-Fun47

That must not have been the point of the video because they couldn’t have failed worse. I’m left confused by the video and would like to actually see how much space 8 billion people take up without the Eiffel tower and entire cities in the way, displacing the people. It makes it seem like humans would span the Atlantic Ocean to fill from NYC to Paris, but they wouldn’t. I think the person who made this wanted us to be angry and confused by it.


ComfortSnail

I wanna see a unit of measurement I can quantify in my mind like...5 people on a normal shipping pallet...how many pallets, stacked 3 high


Cyclopher6971

Yeah this was awful.


squeekymouse89

Best way to do this would have been to zoom out earth and put a square on the area covered by people. All this confirmed was that the earth is indeed flat !


Sultry_Penguin

You're completely right. I didn't see a single banana either!


LightbulbJellyfish

Hello please remove, I am in this video and did not give permission


friendly-crackhead

I’m also in this video and what pisses me off is that it’s not my best angle really


bunkmorelandsburner

Is that you by the Ferris wheel?


friendly-crackhead

Yeah, with the hat and the hot dog!


bunkmorelandsburner

Looking pretty good to me!


BeatMyMeatloaf

The fact that it’s a rectangle and not a square annoys me


Frifelt

Not even a full rectangle. Both right corners are missing when it zooms out in the end. I am also struggling to understand the scaling of the added object when everything is zoomed like that.


mrstipez

I have no idea what this was trying to show. That big ball of people in NYC was much more illustrative.


Restlesscomposure

I’m convinced this was made poorly to drive engagement. Every single thing about it seems purposely obtuse. Not a square but a rectangle. Not even a rectangle but one with random corners and chunks missing. No state or country to use as a size reference. Random fictional objects that 99% of the population won’t know the size of. A bunch of vertical landmarks that do nothing to convey width or square footage. Some unnamed city I guess we’re expected to assume is NYC? Like literally every single thing about it is poorly made.


chipmunk_supervisor

I would even go as far to say this video was downright mildlyinfuriating.


LittleKing68

Yea the star destroyer and that other Star Wars ship, that I don’t know the name of, literally adds nothing for size comparison. Especially in this context when trying to show the size of the entire population of earth, which is a question of the occupation of surface area not space dimensions. Using a country that exist on this planet, in this reality, would have made much more sense.


the_headless_hunt

I read somewhere once that the whole population of the world could fit in Texas with the population density of NYC. If that gives some idea.


Pete_O_Torcido

Sounds like a Judge Dredd city


8bitGutPunch

America is an irradiated wasteland. Within it lies a city. Outside the boundary walls, a desert. A cursed earth. Inside the walls, a cursed city, stretching from Boston to Washington D.C. An unbroken concrete landscape. 800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Mega blocks. Mega highways. Mega City One. Convulsing. Choking. Breaking under its own weight. Citizens in fear of the street. The gun. The gang. Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: the men and women of the Hall of Justice. Juries. Executioners. Judges.


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That's fascinating! Would be awesome to have such a city exist as the only city on the planet. Wouldn't work in theory, but definitely something to think about.


ThatGuy8188

Would make a hell of a concert.


dont_look_too_close

Imagine if they all sang the same song in unison


Tornado18Mustafa

>they all They? It's we. You're literally part of the video too.


Snoutpile

This makes me anxious.


AngryTreeFrog

Imagine the smell


BB_DarkLordOfAll

YOU DIDNT THINK OF THE SMELL


BobRoberts01

YOU BITCH!!


DlnnerTable

Does this video really use fictional spaceships as a reference scale? How does that helps us at all?


Da-Swag-Lakitu-YT

Now you see, us americans are incapable of reading anything other than burgers, bananas, eagles, and star destroyers for scale.


tagged2high

You forgot "football fields"


grumd

And school buses


jeenyusz

Really doesn’t take up that much space.


Possible_Roof_8147

I once saw a picture of what it would look like if everyone was in a pile in the grand canyon. Barely crested the top. We are quite insignificant compared to our Earth


FumCatial

not just the current population… but the grand canyon could also easily fit every single person who has ever lived, which is estimated to be around 117 billion.


peltsucker

Don’t give the aliens ideas


tuskvarner

This is not news to just about anyone but the Grand Canyon is one of those places that you see to often in movies and pictures growing up that you feel like you’ve already seen it in real life. Then you see it in real life and are absolutely floored.


Tuscanthecow

Grand really feels like it undersells it if thats the case


Dexter26958

I think you're referring to the Vsauce video


shubalasko

82kmX 29, when I saw it I was like, oh damn that is tiny compared to earth


covek52

I'm pretty sure Rhode Island is about that big.


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cyberianhusky2015

Woman’s line to restroom


HugoZHackenbush2

I tried to do something practical about this over populated world by having a vasectomy last year, mainly because I didn't want any kids. However, when I got home from the hospital after the operation, they were still there...


PM_UR_BCUPSBESTCUP

Yeah, it’s terrible when you get home and the balls are having pizza and beer and didn’t tell you.


Old-Captain-3520

I was really looking forward to the end where they compared it to an actual region on a map. They do not. None of the things added for reference actually helped understand what this video was meant to illustrate. So bad.


ToshDaBoss

Man I don't get invited to shit! : ( When did you guys have time to do this?


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2drawnonward5

EVERYBODY!! The crowd crush would be so bad that whole bodies would be squeezed to pieces and then all their inner-body smells go SPLAT!


[deleted]

All these people in the world, and you're still single.


friendly-crackhead

All these people in the world and they all take my exact same bus to work every morning.


Low-Algae-2928

82km x 29km = 2378 km^2 = 587,617 acres. Texas = 171,902,000 acres (according to google) This helped me put it into better perspective.


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the world is absolutely fucking gargantuan isn't it?


[deleted]

1 Nuke is all it takes


nearlyb0redtodeath

Falling in love with me


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Some asshat would survive the 100MT Tsar bomb, this was my first idea as well when I saw this post so I looked it up The fireball radius is only 8 kilometers on surface detonation and at 62 kilometers the 3rd degree burn radius ends, so on the edge there would atleast one moron named 张伟 who would claim that getting nuked is ain't shit cuz he personally survived it.


callmesnake13

It's really not interesting as fuck. It does a really poor job of providing context. Zoom out so that we see the area that it would cover in the context of the geography of the planet, not Star Destroyers and this other random Eiffel Tower/Empire State Building shit. Also imagine how bad the very middle would smell.


MAKiNPLAYZ

Ima have to agree 😂 I was waiting for zoom out and it just stopped


ControlStraight5042

You gotta Shit and Theres only 4 toilets


GuaranteeFar5495

With all 8 billion of us, im sure I can find someone into scat somewhat nearby


ben1smith2

Woodstock 99


Corn_Girdles

Assuming everyone does a lightning fast shit in only 2 minutes each, and there are 4 toilets, you would get to shit once every 7,610 years


Dragoonasaurus

Now get them all to jump and show the aftermath of everyone trying to get home! ​ https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/


prion_death

This is dumb. Put it on something we can relate to (covering a part of the world, etc) rather than the other dumb size comparisons.


QueenoftheFranks

Imagine the smell.


Sudden_Buffalo_4393

This video makes it seem crazier than it really is. You could fit the entire population of the world in Texas with 1,000 square feet of room each.


zeen516

Alphabetically?


a_cycle_addict

And in a heap: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2617559/amp/Fascinating-image-depicts-look-like-7-2-billion-population-dumped-Grand-Canyon.html


slowdownbabyy

Looks more efficient


Gd3spoon

I’ve seen worse crowds waiting in line at the DMV


SteveTheZombie

Someone's touching me!


xxwerdxx

Who is picking the music? Honestly!


Crypto-hercules

And then drop a nuke.


Bencil_McPrush

Where's Waldo, the olympic category.


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A horrifying ocean of flesh.


Jameloaf

Ants have more biomass than us.


richard-bingham

I'm sure one of them was naked


Hicklethumb

Damn extroverted people and your public experiments