Double Cube

I experience exponentially.

We've tripled the miles that we drive since 1970 and doubled them since 1982.

I'll buy you a Tbone twice as big and twice as beautiful if it takes my whole paycheck, which it will.

Elephants are several times the size of mice.

Come back down, you weigh twice as much.

Australia is about twenty times as large as Japan.

It's 10 times twice as dangerous.

The three countries are projected to more than double their use of energy and their greenhouse gas emissions in the next 20 years.

The average American is nearly 20 times richer than the average Chinese by the 1970s.

China is about twenty five times as large as Japan.

By tonight, he'll outnumber you 20to1, 30to1.

It says that, if it were linear, the steepest slope, then doubling the size you would require double the amount of energy.

In the last century, the world s population increased four fold, and the number of people living in cities thirteen fold. The world s output grew by a factor of forty, water use by nine, energy use by thirteen, and the emission of carbon dioxide by seventeen.

But don't worry.

Now, if you were to go down to, say, 300 feet, you don't have five times as many gas molecules in your lungs you've got 10 times as many gas molecules in your lungs.

The computer in your cellphone today is a million times cheaper, a million times smaller, a thousand times more powerful.

Well imagine a small cube that's about this big standing in front of you in the middle of the room, and as you approached it, it tried to intimidate you by growing into a cube that's twice its height and eight times its volume.

If we place a single grain of rice on the first square of a chessboard, double this and place 2 grains on the second, double again and place 4 on the third, double again and place 8 on the fourth, and continue this way, putting on each square twice the number of grains than were on the previous one, by the time we reach the final square, we need an astronomical number of grains

Second, the rate of increase is double for women compared to that of men.

But the people who fail are 37 times more likely to succeed the second time.

So we're saying income growing at 16 times and no growth in carbon.

We can do that in multiple individuals that we've assayed too.

Set the face value of the cube and select who should be able to double. Note that a face value of 1 automatically allows both players to double.

Listen to this, between 1950 and 2000, the world's population doubled.

And that's twice the energy output, weight for weight, than a hummingbird absolutely astonishing.

And this extremely thin layer is able to levitate more than 70,000 times its own weight.

Today, if we divided up equally what we produce worldwide, would it give us a standard of living ten times that of our pre industrial ancestors? Twenty times?

For individual farmers the allowance is equal to three times the basic old age pension.

When I was in Davos, China's Mayor of Dalian was pressed about their CO2 strategy, and he said the following, You know, Americans use seven times the CO2 per capita as Chinese.

One, two, three. All the way to that knothole.

General situation

Dodecahedron

Icosahedron

Cubohemioctahedron

Deltoidal hexecontahedron

Disdyakisdodecahedron

Great dodecadodecahedron

Great dodecahedron

Great dodecicosahedron

Great icosahedron

Great icosidodecahedron

Great rhombidodecahedron

Icosidodecadodecahedron

Icosidodecahedron