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249 points Leftium | 1 comments | 19 Apr 24 03:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | 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.

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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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swader999 ◴[19 Apr 24 12:35 UTC] No.40086035[source]▶
That would get pretty stinky though.
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1. 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.