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249 points Leftium | 3 comments | 19 Apr 24 03:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.586s | source

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blowski ◴[19 Apr 24 10:54 UTC] No.40085247[source]▶

TIL - All humans stood on top of each other would be significantly taller than the diameter of the Sun.

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prmph ◴[19 Apr 24 11:44 UTC] No.40085582[source]▶

Cool.

And yet all humans alive, if packed like sardines, will fit in a 1 mile cube, with room to spare.

Physical dimensions can be an amazing un-intuitive thing.

blowski ◴[19 Apr 24 12:01 UTC] No.40085712[source]▶

Gosh, you're right.

Assuming:

- 5,250 can stand front to back

- 3,500 side-by-side

- 750 on top of each other

That's more than 13 billion humans you could fit in said cube.

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1. swader999 ◴[19 Apr 24 12:35 UTC] No.40086035[source]▶

That would get pretty stinky though.

2. blowski ◴[19 Apr 24 12:37 UTC] No.40086055[source]▶

The "What If?" books by Randall Munroe (of XKCD fame) cover topics like this with that kind of thought process.

3. BlueTemplar ◴[19 Apr 24 16:25 UTC] No.40088749[source]▶

Also pretty hot, since if I remember correctly, the waste heat of a human is higher per volume (or was that mass ?) than of the sun !

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