Earthed

How many people are off the planet at one time?

What do you reckon... the average number of people/ % pf people who are flying somewhere across the planet at any given instant? I just wanna know what kinda numbers of our population are not on the planet that they live upon at any give time... How many people are not on this planet every second of the day?

Public Comments

1. dunno
2. I don't imagine the exact number, i think it's something like 300.000 - 600.000.
3. An infinitesimal fraction, actually. If there were 10,000 aircraft airborne at any given moment (probably a bit high) and each had a average of 250 people on board, that would be 2.5 million people. With about 5 billion inhabitants, that would only be 5 one-hundredths of 1 percent (0.05%) of the Earth's population in the air at one time.
   
   
   
   Here's a sobering thought: If all 10,000 of those aircraft were blown up by terrorists at the same instant, we'd never notice the population drop looking at it from a global perspective. The loss in population would be recovered in less than 2 weeks.
4. Too many but there not necessarily up in the air they just don't have their feet on the ground