From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: goldfarb@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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