From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
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Subject: Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison
In article , David Goldfarb
wrote:
> 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?
Oops. Thanks. That's still pretty freaking heavy, though.
We're back up to 5 billion tons for the 70 billion humans.
> 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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