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if we put the entire humanity in a single point on the Earth how big would the surface occupied be?

suppose they are all together touching one another

>> No.3340013

> OP's weak excuse for visualizing himself touching children

>> No.3340019
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>> No.3340023

Points have no size.

>> No.3340028

This is a Fermi problem. Take the amount of area occupied by a single person when you pack them shoulder-to-shoulder, chest to back, and then multiply by the global population.

Go. You should be able to give us an order-of-magnitude answer even without looking up any numbers.

>> No.3340031

>>3340023
/thread
Glad to see someone beat me to the punch; /sci/, I am pleased.

>> No.3340032

Hard to say, are we counting infants and small children?

>> No.3340033

>>3340005
6 billion square feet.

>> No.3340036

iirc in a recent issue of NatGeo on world pop. the area would be the size of Los Angeles.

>> No.3340037

>>3340023
So then...this entire thread is a failure of English and communication?

Or just a trolling that I don't quite understand.

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There are people that fit in a chair

There are people that cant fit in a bed

>> No.3340044

>>3340037
You're interrogating the text from the wrong perspective.

>> No.3340047

Let's say each human occupies 0.1 m^3.

ball o' humans, optimized, would take up ~7 * 10 ^8 m^3.

radius of such a sphere would be 550 meters, and so the surface area would be 550 * 550 * pi * 4

Around 3.8 million m^2

>> No.3340096

I would hate to be surrounded by all the tubby fuckers in America.
I would suffocate on some southern land whale's fat rolls.

>> No.3340143

>>3340036
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/video/player#/?titleID=7-billion-animation&catID=1

k guys found it

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>>3340096
>Percent of adults age 20 years and over who are obese: 34% (2007-2008)
>http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm

I think you'll be alright, stop trying to start shit.

>> No.3340268

At a single instant, or is population fluctuation still a factor?

>> No.3340314

random useless fact: in terms of 'biomass', ants come close to us as well.