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249 points Leftium | 5 comments | 19 Apr 24 03:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.826s | 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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1. non-chalad ◴[19 Apr 24 13:42 UTC] No.40086735[source]▶
Give every human an acre of land, and we'd all easily fit into Texas.
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2. slingnow ◴[19 Apr 24 14:14 UTC] No.40087098[source]▶
There are 8 billion people on earth. And Texas is 172 million acres. I don't think the math works out.
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3. ◴[19 Apr 24 15:36 UTC] No.40088142[source]▶
4. ghkbrew ◴[19 Apr 24 18:52 UTC] No.40090658[source]▶
We (the humans) would fit into Texas regardless of whether the land we owned would ;-)
5. non-chalad ◴[20 Apr 24 01:27 UTC] No.40093764[source]▶
915 square feet is still enough for some solar cells, a bio digester, an aquaponics setup with vegetable garden, a cabinet full of quail, a cot, a rocket stove, and a small shed.