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I 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 ago
  Err, there are over 7B people on the planet right now.
  • mojowo11 9y ago
    And that's only the living people, we got lots of dead human bodies lying around, too!
  • _asummers 9y ago
    The 5B mark was ~1987 according to wikipedia's population numbers in 1985 and 1990.
  • vacri 9y ago
    Embiggen the pyramid a little.
• InitialLastName 9y ago
  I'm pretty sure that one crosses a comfort vs density threshold.
  • jacobolus 9y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
• Fricken 9y ago
  If 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 ago
  That'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 ago
  If 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.