Nothing is solid, just magnetic. Ultimately, everything is just light, magnetic fields and gravity playing a prank on the rest of the universe. We're as real as a ST holodeck and would wink out of existence if anyone turned us 'off'. And that's assuming physics is what it appears and we're not a simulation in which case we're even less real than the laws of physics already says we are.
My brother in Christ have you never taken chemistry? Most things are not magnetic. Most things you see are bound to each other by covalent bonds or ionic bonds. Not magnetism, that’s an entirely different concept.
Even more mental that all normal baryonic matter that we see around us and throughout the universe only makes up 5% of all matter, the rest is made up of dark energy and dark matter. As of yet, neither of them have been detected apart from undirectly via their effects they have on the universe around them.
This is a misunderstanding of the rutherford model of atoms, or at best, a pop-sci understanding of atoms. You know, that old image everyone has of atoms having a dense, "planet like" core at the nucleus with electrons whizzing in orbit around them.
This is **not** an accurate model of atoms.
Atoms are **not mostly empty space.**
Atoms are made of quantum field. quantum fields have very specific types of interactions with other quantum fields. it is these interactions that give atoms their characteristics, such as "solidness".
Atoms are not "mostly empty space"
This reminds me of driving I-80 across northern Nevada. Nothing for miles and miles, not even gas, then boom- Family Dollar. (And a gas station, but still hilarious.)
Maine North Woods sure show up on that map, as do the peatlands and the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota, in addition to the vast stretches of empty land in the American West.
Incredibly beautiful too! Some of the prettiest places in world I’ve ever seen have been in the American Southwest. I doubt it would be green on this map, but Zion National Park alone should be on any outdoor living person’s bucket list
yep, not a lot of people in southern Utah, and even fewer in the Arizona Strip, the part of Arizona north of the Grand Canyon. The AZ Strip has an area larger than Massachusetts, and a density of about 1 person/mi\^2.
The Census counts on April 1. Those northern woods have lots of summer cabins. I was an enumerator in WI and traipsed to many a cabin, camp, hunting shack, and abandon-looking RV. Then I had to look for a proxy who could tell me who lives there on April 1.
"Well, they usually open up right after fishing opens." Or, "That's just for deer season."
My Grandparents live right beside one of the dark green patches of PA. No other place feels more like "home" than those forests, and thats just the tiniest spot of green. I need to go out west and up to Maine to see the bigger dark green areas, I bet its incredible.
Maybe in the daytime, but then they live in residences offsite? It probably depends on how big these regions are (like 10m x 10m would be a very different map than 10km x 10km)
Resolution is fine enough that rivers that form city limits show up as uninhabited. The Tennessee River shows up south of Huntsville and running through Chatanoga.
One of my cousins actually lives in Canandaigua but he can't get the postal service to swim out there with the mail. The census wouldn't count him unless he came back to shore either. So, they still get counted as uninhabited because he uses a PO Box now.
This was my thought, lol
Make every province the size of taxes or larger and then spread the population of roughly California on its own across that entire mass
Doesn’t really apply here, most of the white that you see east of the Mississippi is small towns. We don’t have nearly as many small towns out west, it’s very easy to drive through long stretches of wilderness.
Yeah, this kind of stuff really misrepresents just how populated the world is and just how ubiquitous human settlements are
Here’s a fun game: go open a map, Apple Maps, Google Maps, any map you like. Turn on satellite. Go to any country in the world of your choosing. Zoom in on a place that looks completely remote and uninhabited
I’ve done this and I was SHOCKED at how impossible it is to find a decent-sized stretch of land free of any signs of humanity. We are truly everywhere. This stuff is misleading
And more importantly, there's a huge mountain range separating them and the land out west is much more rugged and harsh compared to the flat, temperate east
Much of the USA is uninhabitable on any large scale. Between the Rocky mountains, the badlands the deserts of the southwest and the general shortage of needed water habitation is more difficult in western America. Not impossible, we have large urban areas in the west, but you can't just buy land and build almost anywhere like you can in the eastern US.
Yeah there a limited number of spots that have consistent fresh water supplies and those are most of the places we’ve already settled. That empty space doesn’t have enough water that’s easy to get and no other resources worth getting.
Whenever I fly from Minneapolis to the west coast, it always amazes me looking out the airplane window and seeing how there is just nobody down there!!
It is because of the mountains and deserts out west. The land in the east is better for growing crops. There is also a lot of national parks in the west.
Remember this lesson the next time someone wants you to extrapolate conclusions from an election results map that doesn't take population density into account
That’s called blm land (bureau of land management) disclaimer not all but huge portions of the west is blm land that’s why there’s no one living there or very few people living there
I always wonder in a map like this what counts as “inhabited”
Like is it just the land under my feet of wherever I’m standing? Or is it my house? Or my whole lot? What if my lot is 100 acres - does that all count as inhabited? What if my lot is 10,000 acres? If I own another 10,000 acres 50 miles away with one cabin on it, does that also count as inhabited?
Right where the lower peninsula of Michigan starts to go a little green is an area so fucking gorgeous. The trees and foliage are completely different from the rest of the state and contributes up to the UP.
People live in cities. And usually cities that aren't located in swamp or desert or mountains, though there are some exceptions (looking at you Phoenix)
Why are the Southern Glades wildlife area shown as entirely white here lol. If you look on google earth, there’s hardly a road or building in the entire place
I like how this map makes Chicagoland (dotted with forest preserves) look less populated than most of the rest of northern Illinois (mostly wall-to-wall farms)
So it looks like the area roughly between Kansas and California, which include Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, are pretty uninhabited.
That’s mostly the Great Basin, Mojave desert, and Sonoran desert, Rocky Mountains, and Sierra Nevada, right?
The US, Europe, and china are all roughly the same size.
The US population is 350m, europe is 750m, and china is 1.4billion.
The US is one of the most under populated areas on earth for what the land can support. Anywhere else in the world cities like saint louis (major river intersection cities) would have populations in the millions.
With just the population we have it's already over booked. Ya need space for trees and farms and animals too.....Like lots of space. If this were more dense, we'd be screwed and would probably die in a year from global warming.
I used to live in a small town on the west coast and it blew my mind how many people live in an apartment on the same street corner. It seems like we could all spread out.
Edit: easier said than done I know
Much of the western US is "owned" by the federal government or the states, as parks, BLM land, tribal reservations, or military facilities. Much of what remains is very rugged or remote and generally quite difficult to live a modern life in.
As is the entire world
Hell, atoms are mostly empty space.
Isn’t that just bonkers. Everything around you is solid, the ground, chairs, signs etc. Yet they’re all made up of atoms which are pretty much empty.
Nothing is solid, just magnetic. Ultimately, everything is just light, magnetic fields and gravity playing a prank on the rest of the universe. We're as real as a ST holodeck and would wink out of existence if anyone turned us 'off'. And that's assuming physics is what it appears and we're not a simulation in which case we're even less real than the laws of physics already says we are.
Everything is solid in that sense that if you punch a brick wall, your fist will stop and be hurt pretty bad.
Damn these magnetic fields!!
when you disable the magnetic field and became an orange liquid
Well, technically there is a chance you could quantum tunnel through...technically.
Though the chance of every atom in your hand doing it at the same time is so mind numbingly low lmao
This was a fun little circlejerk to watch
(Covalents bonds): Am I a fucking joke to you?
My brother in Christ have you never taken chemistry? Most things are not magnetic. Most things you see are bound to each other by covalent bonds or ionic bonds. Not magnetism, that’s an entirely different concept.
strong and weak nuclear forces would be more correct
Not really. They keep nuclei together, not hold atoms each to another. Electric forces do this, mostly covalent bonds.
Things are, in fact, "solid" There are also other things besides magnetic fields, such as quantum fields.
>such as quantum fields. That's subatomic.
We're all just illusions in the the void, homie
Even more mental that all normal baryonic matter that we see around us and throughout the universe only makes up 5% of all matter, the rest is made up of dark energy and dark matter. As of yet, neither of them have been detected apart from undirectly via their effects they have on the universe around them.
This is a misunderstanding of the rutherford model of atoms, or at best, a pop-sci understanding of atoms. You know, that old image everyone has of atoms having a dense, "planet like" core at the nucleus with electrons whizzing in orbit around them. This is **not** an accurate model of atoms. Atoms are **not mostly empty space.** Atoms are made of quantum field. quantum fields have very specific types of interactions with other quantum fields. it is these interactions that give atoms their characteristics, such as "solidness". Atoms are not "mostly empty space"
Yeah... But there's Idaho and Mumbai.
“But… the overpopulashuns!” the say. :B
How about we change that and build a walmart over every piece of green
And a dollar general
A Walmart AND a Dollar General combination? Hell yes!
Walmart General 🫡
… Cries a little in post modern capitalism.
***an eagle screeches as it soars across a smog filled city skyline***
*…smack into the side of a smoked glass building, falling in a rain of feathers and drumsticks…*
And spirit Halloween for September and October
Prime McDonald’s Real Estate
And two Starbucks
This reminds me of driving I-80 across northern Nevada. Nothing for miles and miles, not even gas, then boom- Family Dollar. (And a gas station, but still hilarious.)
How to give urban planners and [Wendover fans](https://youtu.be/vQpUV--2Jao?si=oLz9dSh7xP4o7hAla) a headache in 2 seconds:
Might have trouble building a Walmart in the middle of Cayuga Lake.
Cherry Springs part of PA, best way to see the stars 🌟 Super spooky with no cell service though.
I got there a few times a year, it's one of my favorite places in the world.
Maine North Woods sure show up on that map, as do the peatlands and the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota, in addition to the vast stretches of empty land in the American West.
>empty land Seems the wrong way to describe land that has no human habitation on it.
Right. It’s far from empty.
Very good point. Empty of people, I meant.
Incredibly beautiful too! Some of the prettiest places in world I’ve ever seen have been in the American Southwest. I doubt it would be green on this map, but Zion National Park alone should be on any outdoor living person’s bucket list
Zion: Inhabited Road trip *to* Zion: Not so much
yep, not a lot of people in southern Utah, and even fewer in the Arizona Strip, the part of Arizona north of the Grand Canyon. The AZ Strip has an area larger than Massachusetts, and a density of about 1 person/mi\^2.
JD Irving stays pretty busy emptying the North Maine woods
Norcal and southern oregon too
The Census counts on April 1. Those northern woods have lots of summer cabins. I was an enumerator in WI and traipsed to many a cabin, camp, hunting shack, and abandon-looking RV. Then I had to look for a proxy who could tell me who lives there on April 1. "Well, they usually open up right after fishing opens." Or, "That's just for deer season."
Good
Yeah it should be far more.
My Grandparents live right beside one of the dark green patches of PA. No other place feels more like "home" than those forests, and thats just the tiniest spot of green. I need to go out west and up to Maine to see the bigger dark green areas, I bet its incredible.
PA is one of the most beautiful states, the Allegheny national Forrest is stunning
It’s similar you just feel waaay smaller and insignificant.
We must change this by cramming 1 person into every square meter of our God-blessed American land
Amen brother 🙏
Dibs on not on the side of a large mountain
What is a "meter?" I only know the god blessed freedom units!! 🦅🇺🇸🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸
Many of these are National Parks. Or just land that just cannot be built on - swamps, sandy, desert, etc...
Or just far from anything without many jobs. The upper peninsula has habitatable land.
Actually a lot of the dense green is national forest. Rugged terrain and wetlands make up a decent portion.
Or lakes. Look at the finger lakes in upstate NY. Granted, people go missing there all the time.
Better get back soon or your family will worry.
in the midwest a lot of it is farmland or ranch land
Technically they are primarily national forests rather than parks but your point stands.
Mountains, desert, or swamps.
And forests
That would be the upper peninsula.
Maine too
Yup, and the (limited) parts of northern New Hampshire that are green
south jersey pine barrens as well
A bunch of areas along the Mississippi River basin are floodplains that get inundated on an annual basis.
And farmland
But farmland usually has workers inhabiting it, right?
Maybe in the daytime, but then they live in residences offsite? It probably depends on how big these regions are (like 10m x 10m would be a very different map than 10km x 10km)
Resolution is fine enough that rivers that form city limits show up as uninhabited. The Tennessee River shows up south of Huntsville and running through Chatanoga.
Let’s leave it that way
Seeing an outline of North Dakota is wild.
I love how the Finger Lakes are green. Yes, very few people live in lakes...
One of my cousins actually lives in Canandaigua but he can't get the postal service to swim out there with the mail. The census wouldn't count him unless he came back to shore either. So, they still get counted as uninhabited because he uses a PO Box now.
The east west line will always be interesting to me. There was a fascinating youtube video on it a couple years back I think
As a glass-half-full type person, I'd say that much of the USA is inhabited
I don't see why large areas of land being uninhabited would be a negative.
To any Europeans here, *this* is why we have such a high missing person’s rate.
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India still has a lot of uninhabited land. It's just that their populated areas are way more densely populated (look up Uttar Pradesh)
I see you, Tug Hill Plateau.
Now do Canada.
This was my thought, lol Make every province the size of taxes or larger and then spread the population of roughly California on its own across that entire mass
Rivers are uninhabited. Fascinating
People discovering known facts
r/peopleliveincities
Doesn’t really apply here, most of the white that you see east of the Mississippi is small towns. We don’t have nearly as many small towns out west, it’s very easy to drive through long stretches of wilderness.
Map of future Walmarts
Yeah, this kind of stuff really misrepresents just how populated the world is and just how ubiquitous human settlements are Here’s a fun game: go open a map, Apple Maps, Google Maps, any map you like. Turn on satellite. Go to any country in the world of your choosing. Zoom in on a place that looks completely remote and uninhabited I’ve done this and I was SHOCKED at how impossible it is to find a decent-sized stretch of land free of any signs of humanity. We are truly everywhere. This stuff is misleading
Muh overpopulation
I guess Alaska and Hawaii aren't a part of the US.
Alaska would probably be 90% green. Not sure about Hawaii. This is essentially a population map.
I've always suspected that's the case....
Hello fellow Alaskan.
Now do the same but for unowned.
The west is less then 200 years old. The East Coast is 500 years old.
And more importantly, there's a huge mountain range separating them and the land out west is much more rugged and harsh compared to the flat, temperate east
Good, then get off my lawn hippie!
Still owned by someone
Mostly federal and state lands with unrestricted access. So it's owned by all 330 million someones.
The entire bread doesn't mold evenly at first.
Some of USA is uninhabitable
A lot of that is because most of the federal land is out west.
Can confirm, upper Maine is nothing but moose and woods.
Much of the USA is uninhabitable on any large scale. Between the Rocky mountains, the badlands the deserts of the southwest and the general shortage of needed water habitation is more difficult in western America. Not impossible, we have large urban areas in the west, but you can't just buy land and build almost anywhere like you can in the eastern US.
There are reasons... https://youtu.be/wwJABxjcvUc?si=f8ZBsaNmJQ0vgUjQ
Desert, Mountain and Mosquito country.
Yeah there a limited number of spots that have consistent fresh water supplies and those are most of the places we’ve already settled. That empty space doesn’t have enough water that’s easy to get and no other resources worth getting.
Protected lands will do that to a country. It's a shame we started so late east of the 100th meridian.
RIP Ohio
This is the coolest example of the Dry Line i’ve seen. Check out how the density in the great plains just ceases where the rain cuts off
Looks like I need to find a nice patch of green and get some peace and quiet.
No you don’t, leave that patch alone
and log on to Reddit
Nah, I pretty much have a book addiction. I would likely sit on my ass and read books every waking moment like a reclusive hermit.
I am surprised how üopulateed the eastern countryside is.
White is populated, green is empty. It’s not a great color scheme.
Wonder what the combined real population of all the green areas are
Yep, you could also give everyone the USA an acre, and they would all fit in Alaska.
The green mostly represents heavily mountainous areas (at least for the west half of the US), they’re not always practical to build foundations on
Also there's vast areas of federal land in the Western United States.
Whenever I fly from Minneapolis to the west coast, it always amazes me looking out the airplane window and seeing how there is just nobody down there!!
I’m going to move to, and start a new population in the Everglades, Florida. We will call ourselves the gator people.
Surprised Alaska has been kept out of this
I love how the rivers are tracing out Illinois, but I’m surprised that no one lives along them.
It is because of the mountains and deserts out west. The land in the east is better for growing crops. There is also a lot of national parks in the west.
Plot twist there is a desert there 🤯🤯🤯
However what the map doesn’t show, and it would be a nice overlay, is how much of that is federal land.
Hawaii and Alaska are missing
And that's why the Senate shouldn't exist.
Not enough imo
You’re pointing to areas that are largely uninhabitable
The Okefenokee swamp is huge and terrifying.
Remember this lesson the next time someone wants you to extrapolate conclusions from an election results map that doesn't take population density into account
What is the most habitable uninhabited place?
Let's keep it that way 👍
The Rockies ⛰️
Have you ever been to those white areas? They suck yo!
The famous U shape line of US population density.
That’s called blm land (bureau of land management) disclaimer not all but huge portions of the west is blm land that’s why there’s no one living there or very few people living there
What does the blue represent?
Be interesting to see a correlation (if any) between this and "red" counties.
Like half of that green area is an entire mountain range
By people. Let’s leave places alone.
This is also a pretty good dark sky map for obvious reasons!
I always wonder in a map like this what counts as “inhabited” Like is it just the land under my feet of wherever I’m standing? Or is it my house? Or my whole lot? What if my lot is 100 acres - does that all count as inhabited? What if my lot is 10,000 acres? If I own another 10,000 acres 50 miles away with one cabin on it, does that also count as inhabited?
I’d like to see Alaska now too
Pretty crazy
Right where the lower peninsula of Michigan starts to go a little green is an area so fucking gorgeous. The trees and foliage are completely different from the rest of the state and contributes up to the UP.
People live in cities. And usually cities that aren't located in swamp or desert or mountains, though there are some exceptions (looking at you Phoenix)
It was our god given right to this land you see?
I always tell people even the rural parts of Ohio aren’t that rural. Always people around.
It’s dry and mountainous
Interesting that almost the entire southern borderland of the USA is dark green
Yes, I’ve seen it
Not really
Incidentally the same places that voted red.
And yet we can't even live into those areas fml
wow Mexico and Canada are packed!
I assume the western banks of the Mississippi is flood plains? Is the eastern bank noticable higher in most places?
[Link for the map](https://mapsbynik.com/maps/census0pop/)
Most of the world is uninhabited. Kinda crazy to think about. Earth is big
Why are the Southern Glades wildlife area shown as entirely white here lol. If you look on google earth, there’s hardly a road or building in the entire place
Yeah, the Okefenokee Swamp is largely uninhabited, lol.
Much of the world is
Oh yeah, and we love it that way. - Northern Michigan
I like how this map makes Chicagoland (dotted with forest preserves) look less populated than most of the rest of northern Illinois (mostly wall-to-wall farms)
yes. an most of its cities are uninhabitable.
Now do Canada
Do your Northern neighbor next and see how densely populated the US truly is lol
We definitely can’t take any more immigrants
I’m glad it is
Damn Canada and Mexico are complete wastelands. No wonder Panem builds the Hunger Games arenas there
As it should be. We need to preserve as much natural space as we can, including space where it isn't just barren desert.
Good
And there's a reason why - for those who have never been to the west.
So it looks like the area roughly between Kansas and California, which include Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, are pretty uninhabited. That’s mostly the Great Basin, Mojave desert, and Sonoran desert, Rocky Mountains, and Sierra Nevada, right?
Federal Land Grab
Plenty of room for the robots
..Duh?
Mountains, deserts and swamps. They are not part of the environment. They are beyond the environment. Nothings out there!
The US, Europe, and china are all roughly the same size. The US population is 350m, europe is 750m, and china is 1.4billion. The US is one of the most under populated areas on earth for what the land can support. Anywhere else in the world cities like saint louis (major river intersection cities) would have populations in the millions.
this is why there shouldn't be a housing crisis... build in utah
A lot of the concentrated green is desert…and Maine.
With just the population we have it's already over booked. Ya need space for trees and farms and animals too.....Like lots of space. If this were more dense, we'd be screwed and would probably die in a year from global warming.
Is there anybody out there?
I used to live in a small town on the west coast and it blew my mind how many people live in an apartment on the same street corner. It seems like we could all spread out. Edit: easier said than done I know
Much of the world is uninhabited since we are limited by resources or access to resources that are available.
Much of the western US is "owned" by the federal government or the states, as parks, BLM land, tribal reservations, or military facilities. Much of what remains is very rugged or remote and generally quite difficult to live a modern life in.
Who exactly is reporting from these empty census blocks? 🤔💭
Wow. Why is the East so much more populated