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You could also (in theory) put every human on Earth in Texas with a population density of only 26,000 people per square mile, about the same density as New York
by baddox 9y ago
You could also (in theory) put every human on Earth in Texas with a population density of only 26,000 people per square mile, about the same density as New York City.
- madengr 9y agoI read you could pile all the 5 billion human bodies on earth in a pyramid and it would only be 1 km square base.
- sulam 9y agoErr, there are over 7B people on the planet right now.
- InitialLastName 9y agoI'm pretty sure that one crosses a comfort vs density threshold.
- jacobolus 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
- Fricken 9y agoIf you removed the empty space in our atoms, you could fit all humanity into a unit roughly the size of an m&m.
- hwillis 9y agoThat's nothing, I swear the entire planet squeezes into a mile long stretch on 93 in Boston every weekday around 5:30 pm.
- baddox 9y agoIf it's an equilateral square pyramid, the volume would be about a quarter of a cubic kilometer. If we assume humans have an average mass of 65 kg and the same density as water, that gives us room for just under 4 billion humans.