As it turned out, human beings are good at making lots and lots of food. [1] But the question is still interesting; what’s the absolute maximum capacity of the Earth?

1. Energy

How might we calculate this number?

One possibility is this: energy consumption. If a human being needs 2000 kCal/day to survive at a normal level, that energy must come from somewhere; but where?

The sources of energy on the Earth itself can be used up; coal gets burned, oil is spent, uranium is fissed. Almost all new incoming energy must originate from the Sun, the Sun produces 1.740×10¹⁷ watts of power. [2]

Google thus identifies the maximum number of people we could ever support with only the earth: 1.79655832 × 10¹⁵ people. [3] This doesn’t take into account crowding or energy efficiency, but we can know with absolute certainty that without a change in the human species or space colonization, it is impossible to get past this number, which is incidentally about a million times the current population of Earth.

Think muffins and bagels are healthy?

Due to the blog outage from those a-holes at influxhost, I’m re-releasing this article in the unfinished form I found it on Gas’s backup.

Today Liu’s Reviews will be going into a three-part series review on cereal bars. I bought a whole bungalow of them at walmart over spring break, so I’d have something to eat for breakfast.

I’ll review them on taste, texture, presentation, nutrition, and overall breakfast bar experience.

Overall these Pop Tarts are pretty impressive. S’mores are a pretty difficult taste to capture in processed food, but Kellogg’s seems to have chosen not to try to imitate the entire experience of campfire made s’mores. Instead, they focused on making a good tasting Pop Tarts version.

The result is a nice, balanced texture of flavor, which can work both on its own and with milk. Naturally, the taste screams out “better if toasted!” but for the college student with an aversion to kitchens, Pop Tarts do a good job of tasting at least decent no matter what the situation.

The system requirements, though, are a bit high. I ate my Pop Tarts while using the following test specs:

• Intel 2.8 GHz Pentium IV processor
• 512 MB RAM
• ATI Radeon 9600 Pro with 128 MB RAM

Naturally, I didn’t experience too many problems with it. However, on slower systems, people might experience hiccups or slowdowns.

Nutrition-wise, Pop Tarts are Pop Tarts; you get what you expect. That being said, they are pretty filling, and are fortified with some vitamins so you get some nutritional benefit from eating processed breakfast wafers.

Overall, Pop Tarts: S’mores are a good food for those who don’t need high quality but do want a minimum standard for taste and texture.

Pop Tarts: S’mores: 6.5/10