Way more in volume, I'd still be mildly surprised if they had more by %. Depending on the source the U.S. has ~0.5-1% of its total population incarcerated (some sources don't count being jailed pre trial as being incarcerated iirc).

If China were to have MORE than that % it would mean 150 million+ people in prison. It seems like that would be difficult to accomplish on logistics alone, but who knows.

China has about 4 times as many people as the US.

2.2 million or so incarcerated in the US.

China would only need 8-9 million to be the same.

1% of the population of China is 13 million.

Naomi Uemura

Not sure if this article was posted, but interstellar travel. Lots of ideas I didn't know about here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel

I got here because of that picture of the moon going past the earth, taken from a satellite placed in one of these points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric..._United_States

.... according to the CIA Factbook, makes the US one of only three countries, alongside Myanmar (Burma) and Liberia, that have not adopted the metric system as their official system of weights and measures.

In 1866, Congress authorized the use of the metric system[3] and supplied each state with a set of standard metric weights and measures.

Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 "to coordinate and plan the increasing use of the metric system in the United States".

Because of this ineffectiveness and an effort of the Reagan administration.........the USMB was disbanded in the autumn of 1982.

If the general population could make it through HS science classes with reasonable proficiency someday, then the metric system should be able to follow.

It's not just teaching everyone how to use metric, there's going to be a huge expense in converting existing infrastructure that's set up for US units.

I am for converting to metric, but its going to cost me a bunch to get new tools.

Speaking of interesting wikis and a whole society changing how it does something. (I probably saw this in this thread)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H

The day Sweden changed from driving on the left side of the road to the right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton

He saved many lives and was dubbed 'British Schindler' by some. Went on to become a staggering 106 and passed away this summer.

Speaking of making huge changes, I recall hearing about the Brazilian Real on This America Life, which is linked to at the bottom of the article (definitely suggest giving it a listen):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_real

Basically, Brazil had to change its entire currency because of inflation. It was pretty out of control.

To go with this https://youtu.be/6_nFuJAF5F0

Awesome stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Sun-sin

cliffs:

- Korean admiral Yi fends off invading Japanese ships for years during the late 1500's going undefeated in numerous battles.
- Japanese double agent pulls off successful scheme which results in Yi removed from power and imprisoned/tortured by the Korean king.
- Korean admiral who succeeds Yi promptly donks off nearly the entire Korean fleet (150 warships) in the next major battle with only 13 ships escaping.
- Yi is reinstated as commander and with the 13 remaining ships lures the invading japanese fleet of 300+ ships into a trap and routes them, turning the tide of the war.

"The Admiral: Roaring Currents" currently on Netflix is about that last battle.

Crosspost that to the historys greatest badasses thread

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%...ille_encounter

This is a really interesting and weird one, well worth reading. I've never heard of it before despite the claim it is regarded as "one of the most significant and well-documented cases in the history of UFO incidents" by UFOlogists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

Besides knowing that water is poisonous, the list of notable cases is an interesting read of all the ways people have died from drinking too much water. Apparently this is also on the rise as more and more idiots buy into this "you gotta hydrate" meme and people go overboard with it.

Nice that if we have had extraterrestials visit Earth, our go-to plan apparently has been to get the guns and shoot the shaisse out of them.

...which would probably be enough of a deterrent for any peace-seeking aliens to want to conceal their visits.

I'm old enough to remember Anna Wood's death here, it was huge, multi-day front page news around the nation. Ecstasy deaths were almost unheard of here then, the cynical might observe that the media avalanche was probably also because, 15 or not, she was a bit of a cutie. She was a real poster child for the idiocy of drug prohibition in that her death wasn't the result of taking MDMA at all, but was from the combination of two things: 1) advice that when taking MDMA you should "drink lots of water", which is good advice when dancing at sweaty raves but horrible advice elsewhere considering MDMA is known to increase the secretion of anti-diuretic hormone and 2) a reluctance on the part of her friends to seek help when she was unwell, due to worry about legal consequences. Her death was entirely due to misinformation and fear surrounding the prohibition of MDMA and if MDMA were legal she would be alive today. Didn't stop the family going on an anti-ecstasy crusade for the next decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Betts
Similar case in the UK - drank 7 litres of water in 90 minutes but of course it was the drugs that killed her.

Yeah I found the story interesting on a few different levels and their reaction was definitely one of them. Even after it was decided that the creatures were not acting aggressively towards them and had not even entered the house they were still shooting at will.

I love the possible explanation being a bunch of monkeys that had escaped from the circus wearing armour and painted silver. To me that sounds more far fetched and crazy than it being aliens.

not sure i'd ever trust any story about paranormal/supernatural out of a place called Christian County