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comment by Kafke
Kafke  ·  4046 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Real-Time Map of Births and Deaths

I just sat there and watched 600 be born and 300 people die. Most of them being around india. What the hell?! I knew that this sort of stuff happened all the time, and heard that it happens every 6 seconds or so, but I didn't really understand what that meant until I looked at that damn map.

Seriously. WTF? Just trying to take it all in and understand what's going on in those locations is mind blowing. But what I think shocked me the most was that almost none of them were in the US. A couple, sure. But the majority were over in europe, asia, and africa.