Timeline for How long would it take for people to notice a mass disappearance?
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| May 16, 2019 at 7:42 | vote | accept | Obelisk | ||
| May 10, 2019 at 16:13 | answer | added | James Jenkins | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 8, 2019 at 12:53 | answer | added | Sherwood Botsford | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 3, 2019 at 21:12 | comment | added | barbecue | I think there's a problem with having an even distribution of random disappearances. Truly random events would not be evenly distributed. | |
| May 3, 2019 at 14:38 | answer | added | speciesUnknown | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 2, 2019 at 21:43 | comment | added | Muuski | @AlexP That per year number gives us a daily number of a little over 2 thousand. I'm pretty sure if the daily number increased 11 fold nationwide for one day and then went back down to normal it wouldn't be lumped in with normal disappearances. But it also probably wouldn't be on the news. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 19:03 | comment | added | Michael Seifert | Compare The Leftovers, though note that the scale of the Sudden Departure was much larger on that show (about 2% of the world's population, or 140 million people.) | |
| May 2, 2019 at 17:20 | comment | added | user45266 | I read the title and thought it was "people losing weight (mass)". | |
| May 2, 2019 at 17:19 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 1, 2019 at 18:05 | comment | added | SnoringFrog | Somewhat related, but not a dupe worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/23146/…. It's about how many people you can get rid of before you're noticed, but that's by selection, not random. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 15:16 | history | protected | L.Dutch♦ | ||
| May 1, 2019 at 15:10 | comment | added | Willk | Sorry about that vaporization, @user535733. I am sure everyone noticed. It was the bean burrito. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 14:25 | comment | added | user535733 | If the person sitting next to me on a bus suddenly vaporized, I would notice instantly. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 14:15 | answer | added | Eric | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 1, 2019 at 13:37 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 67 | |
| May 1, 2019 at 13:12 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | Related, but not a dupe: How could a species survive on just luring in and eating humans?. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 12:36 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 1, 2019 at 12:04 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 14 | |
| May 1, 2019 at 10:51 | answer | added | user64555 | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 1, 2019 at 10:24 | answer | added | Demigan | timeline score: 34 | |
| May 1, 2019 at 10:01 | answer | added | McTroopers | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 1, 2019 at 9:36 | history | edited | Brythan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 1, 2019 at 8:44 | comment | added | Obelisk | @AlexP Indeed I did do some research on it. The results tend to lean rather strongly towards "People may notice a person is missing and report it. But they will get lumped in with the many,many other mundane reports." Thus it could take quite some time for the relation to be drawn between the missing people cases. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 8:16 | comment | added | AlexP | Did you do a little bit of research? For example, in the U.S.A. some 750,000 persons are reported missing each year, and at any given time some 90,000 persons are known to be missing. Plugging in you 5 million, this corresponds to some 19,000 Americans, about 1/5 of the number of Americans who are actually missing... | |
| May 1, 2019 at 6:46 | history | edited | Obelisk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 1, 2019 at 6:45 | answer | added | Thorne | timeline score: 20 | |
| May 1, 2019 at 6:39 | history | edited | Obelisk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Changed it slightly.
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| May 1, 2019 at 6:39 | comment | added | Obelisk | Let me reword this | |
| May 1, 2019 at 6:28 | comment | added | Tim B II | This question is close to being primarily opinion based and the answer could range from instantaneous (someone watching a person as they dematerialise) to never (if the people are all homeless, or have no family, or come from countries where there is little registration, etc.) Ultimately, the first person to notice someone missing is almost chance, and after that it just depends on how well people communicate what they're seeing and others start connecting the dots. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 6:24 | history | asked | Obelisk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |