Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Lifespan


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The result was: deleted. — MosheZadka 12:11, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Lifespan
One quote, which is not particularly pithy nor accurate (some calculations I made show neither estimate to be particularly accurate, assuming one millilitre as a drop and a 1x10x10 meter size "child's pool"), made by someone without a wikipedia article and a few scattered blogger-like google profile (some blog copies and some references). The theme is not a particularly important theme either, most quotes would belong in Life, I'd assume. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 29 June 2005 06:16 (UTC)


 * Vote closed: Result: deleted (two deletes, no dissent). ~ MosheZadka 12:11, 13 July 2005 (UTC) (added fm history by User:Jeffq)
 * Delete ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 29 June 2005 06:16 (UTC)
 * Delete. Quotee is likely LiveJournal user, a university mathematics student in Vilnius, Lithuania, and is almost certainly not unnotable, making the single quote in the article a vanity quote. Without it, this article isn't even a stub. Irrelevant aside: the quote is accurate, in that the ratio of universe age to human lifespan is far closer to a drop in a child's swimming pool than to one in the ocean. Using a Fermi estimate of 10 (not 1) for drops in a milliliter (cubic centimeter), and a 3-meter round, 30cm-deep child's swimming pool (~2 million cc) vs. the world's oceans (~109 km&sup3; = 1018 m&sup3; = 1024 cc) and a Fermi-estimate universe age of 10 billion years compared to human lifespan of 100 years, we get:
 * Ageuniverse/Lifespanhuman = 1010/100 = 108 = 100 million
 * Drops in swimming pool = 10 x Volpool(cc) = 10 x 2,000,000 = 2 x 107 = 20 million
 * Drops in ocean = 10 x Volocean(cc) = 10 x 1024 = 1025
 * Therefore, the swimming pool ratio is within an order of magnitude, whereas the ocean ratio is 17 orders of magnitude greater, making the former a far, far closer comparison. BUT it still doesn't make the quotee notable. (Please pardon the digression into my old hobby of Fermi calculations. &#9786;) Jeff Q (talk) 29 June 2005 10:03 (UTC)


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