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Showerthoughts_Mod t1_ja11vhr wrote

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Helix_dude t1_ja14i1j wrote

It is possible you just have to fuck every opposite gender person earth multiple times

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subzero112001 t1_ja1lue3 wrote

Yes, when you add a positive number to another positive number, your sum will ALWAYS be larger than either addend. That’s basic math.

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GeneralFactotum t1_ja1ne4h wrote

Depend how you count your ancestors. Back in the day when women had huge families historians have realized that not every child was from her husband. (Things happen once in a while you know.) No matter how neatly a family tree is drawn out all of your ancestors may not be on it! You could have come from a much bigger family then the chart shows.

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Saelaird t1_ja2i4fy wrote

The absolute state of this sub.

OP should be ashamed. This isn't a shower thought. This is basic math.

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Redditardus t1_ja2o86z wrote

Actually, no. This is only applies if you talk about living descendants, and if you are required to be alive

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zamfire t1_ja2sne2 wrote

Humans have been around approx. 200k years. What if we continue for another 5 billion years? That's a lot more descendants than ancestors.

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johnnyblaze1999 t1_ja3couy wrote

Same way goes around. You have more ancestors than your ancestors

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deepcoma619 t1_ja3f6cp wrote

I don’t know, my Dad is a family of 16 kids. When my grandma passed away in 2005, they did a count of 16kids, 60 Grand Children and another 60 Great-Grandchildren, that’s almost 20years ago, those two generations are about 120 people. My Grandparents descended from pairs of people. That 120 of grand & great-grand is averaging 50 years per person times 120 is 6,000 years totaled up. That’s some lineage either way.

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--Chill t1_ja3jk45 wrote

Except if you're Chuck Norris. All ancestors automatically became his descendants the day he was born.

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LittleFairyOfDeath t1_ja4a951 wrote

I have tried to come up with a witty comeback (ala i will have more living descendants) before i realized that isn’t true either and now i am sad.

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Quiet-Shallot3290 t1_ja4ov76 wrote

All my ancestors are dead, so that don't have jack shit. I also have no descendants. However, I am alive.

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Chaosfox_Firemaker t1_ja4vjsd wrote

Replying to notacanuckskibum (#2,034,718)

??? Which is not what the shower thought is about . I suppose the sentence can be a little ambiguous.

It is impossible to have more descendents than your ancestors (have).

Rephrased, your ancestors always have more descendents than you do.

It's not "it is impossible to have more descendents than you (have) ancestors"

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zanna210 t1_ja5fn7k wrote

Not true It's exactly the opposite. Since the starting point of humanity, u have a large (very large) number of ancestors, but it's finite. If you and your descendants keep reproducing, u can go on for eternity in theory.

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