The world is round and I fail to see how 360 degrees is considered a complete circle. Clearly, people have many different directions and 360, or even 720 for that matter, simply just doesn't cut it.
Everyone is so different from each other that you can actually line them up end-to-end at the Earth's diameter and form a shoulder-to-shoulder chain around its circumference and you would have millions, if not billions of people, forming a circle of sorts around. The Earth is no perfect circle, I give you that, but why should that stop us from getting together to figures out how many 'degrees' of separation the Earth can handle, us standing on water aside.
Can you imagine a micro-thin string of connecting wire between each one of us and the core of the Earth? How many would there be? That is the true distance measured with a person being a degree, and it's a lot more than 360 I can assure you of that!
Six degrees of separation would translate to roughly seven feet between one and the other. I take this quite literally, because my mind's eye created quite an insane graphic as I imagined billions of us floating through the universe with the Earth as the only connection. Like an appliance plugged in to a power socket, must we draw power from this central entity? Can't we just be, well, free?
Everyone is so different from each other that you can actually line them up end-to-end at the Earth's diameter and form a shoulder-to-shoulder chain around its circumference and you would have millions, if not billions of people, forming a circle of sorts around. The Earth is no perfect circle, I give you that, but why should that stop us from getting together to figures out how many 'degrees' of separation the Earth can handle, us standing on water aside.
Can you imagine a micro-thin string of connecting wire between each one of us and the core of the Earth? How many would there be? That is the true distance measured with a person being a degree, and it's a lot more than 360 I can assure you of that!
Six degrees of separation would translate to roughly seven feet between one and the other. I take this quite literally, because my mind's eye created quite an insane graphic as I imagined billions of us floating through the universe with the Earth as the only connection. Like an appliance plugged in to a power socket, must we draw power from this central entity? Can't we just be, well, free?
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