could you fit the population of the world onto the isle of wight?

Answer 1

yeah and hope it sinks the bloody shithole

Answer 2

isle of wight has has an area of around 572 km²

let say there are 7 billion people on the planet

that would mean 7'000'000'000 / 572 about 12.2 million people per square kilometer.

So if each person was just standing and doing nothing much, if they took up just 1 meter square. you'd fit a million of them per square kilometer.

So you'd have to build a structure with at least 13 floors all across the isle of wight just so everyone can stand in their own 1 meter square.

Of course people could take up more or less space and that would change how many you could fit on). If you could fit 13 people in 1 square meter then yeah you would fit the world's population on the isle of wight!!

:)

Answer 3

The Isle of Wight has an area of about 380 square kilometers. There are about 6642 million people in the world. That works out to about 18 people per square meter or if you like, two people per square foot ... a tight squeeze.

Answer 4

Have a looksie at this x

the surface area of the Isle of wight is given as 147sq miles.


Taking a human as one yard wide and one foot thick, means we can fit three of us into one square yard. (a bit simplistic but a reasonable starting point)

one sq mile = 1760 *1760, = 3097600 sq yards
so 147 sq miles = 455,347,200 sq yards
and at three of us per sq yard, that's 1,366,041,600 of us fitting on the island.

But world population is 6 billion, not 1.4ish billion.

So no we couldn't fit the world populaiton onto isle of wight. Even at four of us per sq yard it wouldn't work.
Why do people shy away from such simple arithmatic and believe such nonsense.


However
Answer.com gives the Isle of Mann is given as 227 sq miles, so still not big enough.
But interestingly, Greater London area is given as covering about 620 sq miles, so that would do it with room to spare!!!!

Answer 5

Sure, but you need Bush mulching all that clutter called bones and tissue. His biddy Rush says Texas. Doth rush and wight.

Answer 6

I don't really know.

What I have heard, however, is that if you took the world population and marched them into either Loch Ness or Loch Tay, the poor beggars wouldn't break the surface once they were all in. Assuming they don't float, that is.

Answer 7

It depends how you want to fit them and weather u are talking about current time or in future, for example in future we may build extremely tall buildings or people may live above land but still within earth atmosphere or people may also be able to live underground but it may still be called living in isle of wight

Answer: might be able to in future

Answer 8

If it's true, the best thing that could happen for the planet would be to put everyone on there and explode a nuclear bomb.

Answer 9

Depends on whether the tide's in or out ; )

Answer 10

That was in 1976 not now

Answer 11

Sure, if you stacked then high enough. I don't know the size of the island, so that's as far as I can go.