People in the Doctor Who 'verse

[beccaelizabeth]

Thing I noticed today while watching Doctor Who:

When The Master changes every human on Earth he ends up with

6,727,949,338 versions of himself: the number of humans on Earth that Christmas.

When The Doctor tells Craig and Sophie to go have babies he reckons there are

6,000,400,026 people in the world. That's the number to beat.

So either The Lodger is from an earlier year, much earlier given that google's graph reckons world population hasn't been as low as that since 1999, or it is secretly a clue and

727,549,312 people vanished between Christmas and The Lodger.

Or possibly more than that, since there's a small non-human population that The Doctor would consider people, and lots of people should have been getting born and pushing the number up.

I think I'd like it being a Clue. And since 1999 didn't have mobile phones like those seen in The Lodger, and world population is pretty easy to find, it probably was.

(6.727 billion is a little low for Christmas 2009, Google's graph lists mid year as 6.775, but clearly in the DW 'verse the difference is all non-humans...)

Comments

[davidbrider.livejournal.com]

Just found you via Libraything - mind if I Friend you on here? You seem wonderfully geeky. Anyone who can do all this thinking about the Earth's population as revealed in two different DW stories is clearly a person I should be getting to know!

[beccaelizabeth]

friending is good :-)

If you're on Dreamwidth I tend to spend more time there. The split with reading/access lists is easier to manage.