From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: nope@noway.com
Subject: Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison

In article , David Goldfarb
 wrote:

> In article <170720141836136511%nope@noway.com>, 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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