FYI cool map - 5 million Census Blocks with zero population

[Shedder]

This map shows, in green where the nearly 5 million Census Blocks with zero population are located in the U.S. A Block is the smallest area unit used by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating statistics. As of the 2010 census, the United States consists of 11,078,300 Census Blocks. Of them, 4,871,270 blocks totaling 4.61 million square kilometers were reported to have no population living inside them. Despite having a population of more than 310 million people, 47 percent of the USA remains unoccupied. A single inhabitant is enough to omit a block from shading. This map is available as a print.

http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.ca/2017/03/nobody-lives-here.html

 

[Mortenson]

Seems hard to fathom but that's pretty impressive. Big world out there.

 

[hesseu]

That doubles as and extreme environment map! Lol

 

[Bill]

That is cool. I know the big green area in NJ. It's all state owned land in the Warton track. Sand and pine barrons.
That's where the jersey devil lives.

I wonder how much out west is national forest and BLM land.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Wouldn't only the Jersey Devil know where he lives ???? ^^^^^^^ Bill ...... are you the Jersey Devil ???

 

[mthompson]

A little-known fact, with regards to the total human population on Earth....and one that many people will absolutely not fathom as true because of the "world is over-populated" dogma of the past 30 years....

If you took every last Man, Woman, and Child (7.48 billion people) and you put them all inside the boundary of Alaska, each one of use would be able to have ~2,500 sqft all to ourselves.

Think about that for a bit.

 

[Bill]

Wouldn't only the Jersey Devil know where he lives ???? ^^^^^^^ Bill ...... are you the Jersey Devil ???

To old to be me

"Birth of the Jersey Devil:
On a dark and stormy night in the year 1735, a woman lay in bed in labor. Mrs. Leeds was surrounded by midwives and servants, all nervously muttering prayers. There were twelve leeds children already, and Mrs. Leeds wanted no more. In the midst of her pains she cried out that the child could go to the devil, thus cursing the child forever.
When the baby was born, it began to transform before the eyes of the horrified women. It grew a long scaly tail, leathery bat wings sprouted from it's back and a pair of sharp, twisted horns formed on it's head. The child's face grew long like a horse's and the body was covered with brown fur. On the fingers there were long claws and where there were feet there were now cloven hooves.

The midwives and servants scattered, shrieking as the creature stood, now taller than a man, and then flew to the window. It turned to look back at it's mother, then with blood-curdling cry it flew off into the stormy night."



The story sure scared a lot of Boy Scouts over the years. Look up the 13th Leeds child. It's on the Internet, it has to be true.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Bill - Love your last sentence !!! ^^^^

 

[Bszweda]

Just realized how the new jersey devils (hockey team got its name) =)

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To old to be me

"Birth of the Jersey Devil:
On a dark and stormy night in the year 1735, a woman lay in bed in labor. Mrs. Leeds was surrounded by midwives and servants, all nervously muttering prayers. There were twelve leeds children already, and Mrs. Leeds wanted no more. In the midst of her pains she cried out that the child could go to the devil, thus cursing the child forever.
When the baby was born, it began to transform before the eyes of the horrified women. It grew a long scaly tail, leathery bat wings sprouted from it's back and a pair of sharp, twisted horns formed on it's head. The child's face grew long like a horse's and the body was covered with brown fur. On the fingers there were long claws and where there were feet there were now cloven hooves.

The midwives and servants scattered, shrieking as the creature stood, now taller than a man, and then flew to the window. It turned to look back at it's mother, then with blood-curdling cry it flew off into the stormy night."



The story sure scared a lot of Boy Scouts over the years. Look up the 13th Leeds child. It's on the Internet, it has to be true.

 

[Bszweda]

A little-known fact, with regards to the total human population on Earth....and one that many people will absolutely not fathom as true because of the "world is over-populated" dogma of the past 30 years....

If you took every last Man, Woman, and Child (7.48 billion people) and you put them all inside the boundary of Alaska, each one of use would be able to have ~2,500 sqft all to ourselves.

Think about that for a bit.

Population keeps growing and growing its inevitable will be over-populated if we aren't already. Even with the US growth rate of around 2 percent (compounded) its only a matter of time. I've seen the suburban sprawl and the habitat destruction that has occurred in my area over the past 20 years and it makes me sad.