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249 points Leftium | 1 comments | 19 Apr 24 03:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.353s | 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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ninkendo ◴[19 Apr 24 12:02 UTC] No.40085723[source]▶
And if you took each atom of all the humans alive and stacked them in a line (assuming 1 angstrom per atom and 7E17 atoms in a human), it would be roughly 60 light years long.
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1. ReptileMan ◴[19 Apr 24 15:14 UTC] No.40087855[source]▶
The many ways that protein can fold.