Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today

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"The estimated population of the world will pass 6,666,666,666 today. No doubt an interesting number for people everywhere (not referring to any religion connotations). 5,555,555,555 was passed about 14 years ago. You may not realize that only a 80 years ago, the population of the Earth was only around 2 billion. This shows how the population of the world has increased at an alarming rate in recent times. Although the growth rate is almost half what it was at its peak in 1963, when it was 2.2%. Unrelated but also an interesting coincidence, the estimated number of available IPv4 addresses is getting very close to 666,666,666. It should cross over today as well.""
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Woah!
 
Goblit said:
and 6's mean what again? They are lucky according to my neighbour in the Chinese culture....
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In science

* The atomic number of carbon
* The number of carbon atoms and carbon-carbon bonds in benzene
* The number of known quarks and leptons
* The number of tastes in traditional Indian Medicine called Ayurveda. They are: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent, and astringent. These tastes are used to suggest a diet based on the symptoms of the body

[edit] Astronomy

* Messier object M6, a magnitude 4.5 open cluster in the constellation Scorpius, also known as the Butterfly Cluster
* The New General Catalogue object NGC 6, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
* The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -2691 March 16 and ended on -1393 May 3. The duration of Saros series 6 was 1298.1 years, and it contained 73 solar eclipses
* The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -2642 July 25 and ended on -1091 February 10. The duration of Saros series 6 was 1550.6 years, and it contained 87 lunar eclipses
* The Roman numeral VI stands for subdwarfs in the Yerkes spectral classification scheme.
* The Roman numeral VI (usually) stands for the sixth-discovered satellite of a planet or minor planet (e.g. Jupiter VI)

[edit] In religion

* The Day that God created Man
* The number of points on a Star of David
* The number of orders of the Mishnah
* The number of symbolic foods placed on the Passover Seder Plate
* The Jewish holiday of Shavuot starts on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan

See also 666.

[edit] In music

* The number of strings on a standard guitar
* The number of basic holes or keys on most woodwind instruments (e.g., pennywhistle, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon). These holes or keys are usually not given numbers or letters in the fingering charts
* "Six geese a-laying" were given as a present on the sixth day in the popular Christmas carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
* The number of completed symphonies by Peter Tchaikovsky and Bohuslav Martinů
* The number of Brandenburg Concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach
* The concerti grossi Opus 3, organ concertos Opus 4 and Opus 7 (each) by Georg Frideric Handel
* The number of string quartets of Béla Bartók
* The name of the second album by Mansun released in 1998. It takes its name in part from the main character in the television series The Prisoner, and from A. A. Milne's poetry book, Now We Are Six
* In many cases (usually in rock music) an album's feature track is located on the 6th track of the recording medium.
* The French composers Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre were part of a group known as Les Six ("The Six" in English) in the 1920s.
* Bands with the number six in their name include Eve 6, Slant 6, Sixpence None the Richer, Los Xey (sei is Basque for "six"), Vanity 6, and Electric Six
* The number of semitones in a tritone

[edit] In sports

* In American and Canadian Football, the number of points received for a touchdown
* In rugby union, the position of blindside flanker
* In rugby league, the position of 5/8
* In football/soccer, the number of AC Milan's legendary centre back and captain Franco Baresi. The shirt was retired in 1997.
* In football/soccer, the number of Arsenal's legendary centre back and captain Tony Adams. The shirt was retired in 2002 on his retirement but has recently been passed on to Philippe Senderos.
* In football/soccer, the number of Roy Keane for the Irish International Squad.
* In football (soccer), the number of substitutes combined by both teams, that are allowed in the game.
* In baseball, six represents the shortstop's position
* In Australian Rules football, six points are received for a goal
* In cricket (See cricket terminology):
o a "six" or "sixer" is a shot in which the ball clears the boundary without bouncing, scoring six runs
o there are six balls to an over
* In ice hockey, the number of players per team, including the goaltender, that are on the ice at any one time, excluding penalty situations.
* Retired number of former baseball players Stan Musial, Al Kaline, Tony Oliva and Steve Garvey.
* From 1988 to 2006, 6 was the number borne on the car of NASCAR driver Mark Martin.
* The Original Six teams in the National Hockey League are Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, New York, Boston, and Detroit. They are the oldest remaining teams in the league, though not necessarily the first six; they comprised the entire league from 1942 to 1967.
* The National Hockey League and National Basketball Association are comprised of six divisions.
* In some sports, 6 goals is known as a double-hatrick, but is very hard to accomplish.
* The retired number of NBA legends Julius Erving and Bill Russell.

[edit] In technology

* On most phones, the 6 key is associated with the letters M, N, and O, but on the BlackBerry it is the key for J and K. On BlackBerry 8700 series with full keyboard, it is the key for F.
* The "six meter band" in amateur radio includes the frequencies from 50 to 54 MHz

[edit] In television and film

* The audio component of any broadcast channel 6 is located at 87.7 MHz. This means that people can listen to TV stations such as WSYX using an FM radio when a television is not nearby
* Number Six was the main character in the television series The Prisoner
* Number Six is a character in the television mini-series and series Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining)
* Six is the name of a character on Blossom
* On the show Sesame Street, six is Bert's favorite number.
* There are six friends on the television sitcom Friends.
* Six (along with twenty-three and 801) is a recurring number on the revived series of Doctor Who.
* The film Six Degrees of Separation deals with the sociological concept of the same name
* Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a game that can be played with the names of actors and actresses

[edit] In other fields
International maritime signal flag for 6
International maritime signal flag for 6

* In the ancient Roman calendar, Sextilis was the sixth month. After the Julian reform, June became the sixth month and Sextilis was renamed August
* Sextidi was the sixth day of the decade in the French Revolutionary calendar
* The standard term in office for a United States senator is six years
* Mark Martin's NASCAR racing number. 6 was also the number of David Pearson's car when he won his Nextel Cup Series Championship in 1966
* The name of the smallest group of Cub Scouts, traditionally consisting of six people and is led by a 'sixer'. Logically speaking, this isn't always the case, particularly in packs with less than 6 Cub Scouts in it
* Sixth Officer Hantin in The Pendragon Series
* The number of cans of soda or beer in a six-pack
* The number of fundamental flight instruments lumped together on a cockpit display, called the six-pack.
* The number of feet below ground level a coffin is traditionally buried; thus, the phrase "six feet under" means that a person (or thing, or concept) is dead
* The number of inhabited continents, and the total number of continents if Eurasia (Europe plus Asia) is considered a single continent
* The number of large geyser fields in the world

* In Astrology, Virgo is the 6th astrological sign of the Zodiac
* The number of sides on a cube, hence the highest number on a standard dice
* The highest number on one end of a standard domino
* The number of dots in a Braille cell.
* In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Clint Eastwood's character remarks that six is the perfect number- there are six villains confronting him, and six bullets left in his gun.
* There are said to be no more than six degrees of separation between any two people on Earth. See also Six degrees (disambiguation).
* Extra-sensory perception is sometimes called the "sixth sense"
* Six Cardinal Directions: north, south, east, west, up, and down
* The Six Dynasties form part of Chinese history
* 6 is a lucky number in Chinese culture
* The Bionic Six are the heroes of an animated series
* The Birmingham Six were held in prison for 16 years
* 666 is considered the Number of the Beast
* In tarot, trump card No. 6 is "The Lovers"
* "Six" is used as an informal slang term for the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6
* In the military, six is used as slang for rear, derived from the position of the number at the bottom of a 12-hour clock face, as in "Cover my six."
* Six Flags amusement parks and theme parks
* The number of Australian states
* Northern Ireland is known as the Six Counties
 
Intelligence is not knowing the answer, its knowing where to find it!


ie. Googling....or posting in these forums full of smart peeps.

Thanks Ewoks! (Yay I got one right! I found the lucky number one in his list)
 
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