Were all humanity taken and crowded together in one place, it would
occupy three hundred billion liters, or less than a third of a cubic
kilometer. It sounds like a lot. Yet the world's oceans hold 1,285
million cubic kilometers of water, so if all humanity - the five
billion bodies - were cast into the ocean, the water would rise less
than a hundredth of a millimeter. A single splash, and Earth would be
forever unpopulated.
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Mike Lyle - 25 Nov 2005 20:49 GMT
> Were all humanity taken and crowded together in one place, it would
> occupy three hundred billion liters, or less than a third of a cubic
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> forever unpopulated.
> - Stanislaw Lem
[...]
My favourite one of these is that the entire human race, living and
dead, would fit below the surface of Loch Ness.

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the Omrud - 25 Nov 2005 22:34 GMT
>> Were all humanity taken and crowded together in one place, it would
>> occupy three hundred billion liters, or less than a third of a
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> My favourite one of these is that the entire human race, living and
> dead, would fit below the surface of Loch Ness.
I reread "Stand on Zanzibar" on holiday, worrying in case I was no
longer impressed. But it hasn't really dated.

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