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"These immortal cells have multiplied to the point that if you were to weigh all of them that live today, they’d weigh about 50 million metric tons" I would sa
by SeanDav 16y ago
"These immortal cells have multiplied to the point that if you were to weigh all of them that live today, they’d weigh about 50 million metric tons"
I would say yeah - a couple more :)
- gus_massa 16y agoThe article says 50 millon tons, this is realy realy big. It is like 10Kg (~20 pounds) per human being alive. But according to wikipedia and [1] there are "only" 20 tons. (I think that the exact number is difficult to calculate, so 50 tons is perhaps a razonable number too.) Still 20 tons (~ 40000 pounds) is much bigger than 50 or 100 Kg (~100 or200 pound) that is the weight of a person. [1] http://hamptonroads.com/2010/05/cancer-cells-killed-her-then-they-made-her-immortal?cid=posld http://hamptonroads.com/2010/05/cancer-cells-killed-her-then...