Sorry for correcting old stuff.
Originally Posted By: AlbertoT
The dark energy is a direct consequence of the Heisemberg's principle of indetermination and it had been confirmed in Lab, many years after, thanks to the Kasimiri's effect
A few years ago it has been drammatically further confirmed at universal scale

no, the Kasimir effect is an evidence for quantum fluctuations and the zero point energy of vacuum. It is not yet clear if dark energy and the zero point energy are the same thing.
See http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406504.

Originally Posted By: Joozey
No matter how I agree with Michael, 18 billion people died over the last 17 thousand years, and 18 billion living people is what we will soon reach. Pretty crowded world grin.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=number+of+people+who+ever+lived