From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: goldfarb{at}ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
Subject: Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison
In article , A Friend wrote:
>With regard to Demon with a Glass Hand, you
>could -- theoretically -- reduce the entire present-day human race to
>the size of a sugar cube, because atoms are mostly empty space. The
>cube, however, would weigh five billion tons.
Assuming the average person weighs 150 pounds, I make that more like
500 million. Have you slipped a decimal place?
The future-human-race cube would be ten times the volume, but of course
each edge would only be a bit more than twice as long.
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