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I think they mean "billion", not "trillion", two words that are sadly very close together. A typical person might consume 60,000 calories a month, so a trillion
by apsec112 11y ago
I think they mean "billion", not "trillion", two words that are sadly very close together. A typical person might consume 60,000 calories a month, so a trillion calories a month is the equivalent of 17,000,000 people consuming nothing but Soylent. Soylent's not that popular.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoThey're not wrong, just misleading. A typical person consumes 60,000 kilogram calories a month, AKA 60 million gram calories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
- jules 11y agoMaybe they are using the physics definition of calorie rather than the dietary definition of calorie (a 1000x difference).
- damoncali 11y agocalories vs kilocalories, I suppose.
- Animats 11y agoOK, so that's about 17,000 users, or maybe twice that many orders if the typical order is the 2-week size. That's about 1000 transactions a day, or about 2 transactions a minute. That transaction volume could be handled on a shared server with CGI programs. Why do they need so much computer infrastructure?
- Theodores 11y agoExactly!