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that building does look burned out?( insides gone/outsides fine). As for the trees they could have been charcoaled. It will look like a tree but blackened and dried.

New phonenew auto correct. Right now 1 year is 365.24 days. Finally ready to start. Year zero is the first one. I picked 8.4bn as the starting population. Year zero is around 10200 years before. So 8200BCE, roughly. Matches kind of closely with the start of agriculture (~10000BCE). For a...

It looks to me that "tlan" is just a descriptive suffix on the placename. Could Xemutlan =Xemu city Tepeguacan= Tepegville Guancarita/caucamota= guancaton/guacatown?

The actual yr, eight now, is 365. 24ish days and has changed over time. Also, a day is a little not quite 24 hrs.

If you had an apple tree in your yard, that made apples all by itself, would you spend money on apples at the store? But everything didn't start at 1CE. We need a realistic base population first. That 113Bn was an error that I found this morning so the number is back to a ridiculous number...

By 4 miles below Springfield, maybe they mean literally down hill 9r down river from. Great post.

I had an epiphany today and added an infant mortality rate separate from the adult population. Things got super weird and really dynamic fluctuations appeared everywhere. I still haven't added wars or plagues. But, I ran the number from 12,500 yr ago (the last soon to be accepted wipeout) to...

I get you. No, it wouldn't. If we were made by aliens(smh), they would want to conserve resources. So making a stable, self sustaining population would be preferred for however long it was needed; too few and they need lab resources to make more. Too many and you have idle hands that have time...

Got some time to play around with the spreadsheet today and found some interesting things. I set my generations to 15yrs and my death rate to 40% that was the rate in 1700s and any higher causes collapse. Now for some neat finds: 1. The birth rate needs to be > 6 per couple per generation...

I see a lot of ruined buildings.

North, East and South.

Too many. But it was just a basic setup while the brain works more numbers in the background. Things I need to account for: Early population growth was probably 0.25/generation for a long time. I didn't set a death rate; just had everyone die at 50. I'm trying to run something more comprehensive.

I find it odd. Settlers stagnate on the east coast. Fighting wars to claim all the kind they can. Never moving west. Then, BOOM, first recorded earthquake in Tennessee and they start moving westward. I know there us a fault line there that is fairly active even now; its just odd that it marked...

Great article. I the house im living in has some of the same issues(starting) as those in the "25 yr old" photos. This house is all wood construction and is 98 yrs old.

Glad you're back. I was on the old one as galenturul. Anyway, those charts aren't accounting for deaths. So, I fiddled in Google sheets for a bit but came to the same conclusion. I was pretty harsh with the numbers: birthrate of 1.5 and max age of 50 yrs. I even threw in a few wars and a...