The Big Numbers

 

Friday Sept. 17th -- Sat. Sept 18th, 2010, 7:00 PM

 

At first glance it is easy to think this project is unrealistic, to big, to wide spread to work. We are however, realists. We have worked the numbers. They show that it is an ambitious endevore. They also show that it is resonable to assume that with the internet it is easier than one might think to achive the level of participation to reach 10 Billion Beats and positively affect the global consciousness.

10 Billion Beats
The People Current World Population 6,800,000,000 Avg. Population per Time-zone 283,333,333		The Process Target Beats 10,000,000,000 Time-zones 24 Total Beats Needed per Time-zone 416,666,667 Beats per Second 4 Seconds per Hour 3,600 Beats per hour 14,400
The Results
Number of People per Time-zone	Beats per Hour	Total Beats per 24 Timezones
1	14,400	345,600
100	1,440,000	34,560,000
20,000	288,000,000	6,912,000,000
30,000	432,000,000	10,368,000,000
Total People Around the World		% of World Population
720,000		0.0106%
If one person were to do this it would take 82.2 years drumming 24 hours a day!

We are hoping to involve 720,000 people across the planet as the table above shows. We are sincerely trying to engage as many people as possible in every time zone so the beat will actually role around the world. We need more people everywhere but especially in the areas across central Asia, Africa, and the Mid-East. These places in particular are in need of the world positive intention. If you know someone in these areas please let themknow and encourage them to participate.

The table below shows how easily the number of participants can grow. If you ask just 7 people to participate and they ask 7, with in 7 steps we exceed the 720,000 people who need to drum for only 1 hour to achieve 10 Billion Beats. If we all drum for 2 hours we need only have as many people. If you tell even more people and even more people show up....well, that's very nice frosting on a wonderful cake.

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The expansion of participants if everyone involves just 7 people
Number of People	7	49	343	2401	16807	117649	823543