[sygazelle]

This is a population fact, not a geographic fact, but here it goes.

If you took every person in the world and made them a cube and then stacked the cubes in a one square mile space, how high would the stack be?

Assumptions:

People are the density of water.
Water weighs 62.4 pounds per cubic foot.
Average person weighs 125 pounds


One squre mile. How high is the stack? Not all the way to the moon. The answer may surprise you.


Get your calculators out. Go!

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

Maine is the closest state to France.

True but did you know that the shortest distance between the US and Europe is only 153 km. (95 miles). How can that be?

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

This is a population fact, not a geographic fact, but here it goes.
Get your calculators out. Go!

Assumptions aside, the answer is one sugar cube.


https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-scie...ugar-cube.html

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

True but did you know that the shortest distance between the US and Europe is only 153 km. (95 miles). How can that be?

St. Croix to St. Martin

[Lady Jane]

I am not surprised.

https://historyfacts.com/science-ind...ted-the-wheel/

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

I am not surprised.

https://historyfacts.com/science-ind...ted-the-wheel/

Attachment 3613191

So, instead of drunk driving, the arrest should be for wheeled drinking.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

So, instead of drunk driving, the arrest should be for wheeled drinking.

Well, there's that and:

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Well, there's that and:

Please tell me that wasn't you in the video my dear LJ.....or was it?

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

This is a population fact, not a geographic fact, but here it goes.

If you took every person in the world and made them a cube and then stacked the cubes in a one square mile space, how high would the stack be?

Assumptions:

People are the density of water.
Water weighs 62.4 pounds per cubic foot.
Average person weighs 125 pounds


One squre mile. How high is the stack? Not all the way to the moon. The answer may surprise you.


Get your calculators out. Go!

Nobody went, so I'll give you the answer:

If the world population stacked on top of one another on a one-square-mile base, the stack would go up only 600 feet.

In the scheme of things, we humans don't take up much space.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

Nobody went, so I'll give you the answer:

I did answer you, but I was thinking at the atomic/molecular level. Dopey me...

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

Please tell me that wasn't you in the video my dear LJ.....or was it?

Can't you tell...?

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Can't you tell...?

I'll take that as a maybe.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

I did answer you, but I was thinking at the atomic/molecular level. Dopey me...

You are way too smart for me.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

You are way too smart for me.

Nah, I just wear my magic panties.

[iminhell1]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

Nobody went, so I'll give you the answer:

If the world population stacked on top of one another on a one-square-mile base, the stack would go up only 600 feet.

In the scheme of things, we humans don't take up much space.

Except that the average density of a human will not equal a vs water cubic measurement. There are cavities and dead space in humans. Granted not much per individual. But combined between a few billion it's no longer a negligible amount.


But yes, humans are very insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by iminhell1

Except that the average density of a human will not equal a vs water cubic measurement. There are cavities and dead space in humans. Granted not much per individual. But combined between a few billion it's no longer a negligible amount.


But yes, humans are very insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

Your last sentence is really the essence of my point. From a sheer volume standpoint, the world population is absolutely trivial. None of this matters when you are stuck in a traffic jam. But it's surprising (to me at least) just how little space we homo sapiens take compared to the impact we have on the planet.

Even if I adjust the average density of people to 1.03 specific gravity, the world population only adds up to 0.12 cubic miles. That's equals a space one square mile and only 622 feet high. We are a mere drop in the bucket. Lake Tahoe would hold over 300 times the world population. This fact is stunning to me. I would have thought we take up much more space than that.

[Buug959]

FL

[Lady Jane]

https://www.earth.com/news/mount-fuj...-in-130-years/

[kscarrol]

Why do I suspect recorded history in Japan goes back well beyond 1894??

[Buug959]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

https://www.earth.com/news/mount-fuj...-in-130-years/


Attachment 3616357

And that should frighten everyone.

[sygazelle]

A Map Comparing Actual Distances to Their Representation on the Mercator Projection

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

https://www.earth.com/news/mount-fuj...-in-130-years/


Attachment 3616357

I thought I read somewhere (bon jour) that Fuji had snow for the first time in several years this year.