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Originally Posted by sygazelle
This is a population fact, not a geographic fact, but here it goes.
If you took every person in the world and made them a cube and then stacked the cubes in a one square mile space, how high would the stack be?
Assumptions:
People are the density of water.
Water weighs 62.4 pounds per cubic foot.
Average person weighs 125 pounds
One squre mile. How high is the stack? Not all the way to the moon. The answer may surprise you.
Get your calculators out. Go!
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Nobody went, so I'll give you the answer:
If the world population stacked on top of one another on a one-square-mile base, the stack would go up only 600 feet.
In the scheme of things, we humans don't take up much space.