How many bodies would it take to fill the grand canyon?

[Mike_Yates]

How many human bodies would it take to fill the grand canyon?

How high would 6,500,000,000 bodies stack?

Still, I doubt you would be able to fill the entire canyon.

 

[Tryharder62]

Does lit have security?

 

[Mike_Yates]

 

[Liar]

If we assume an average human weighs some 70 kg (I'm not gonna do this shit in anything but metrics, deal with it), and we're mostly water, that means a human takes up, .07 cubic meters of space.

6.5 billion people is then 455 000 000 cubic meters.

That means you can squeeze all people in the world into less than half a cubic kilometer. If you stack 'em right. Let's say twice that to account for air pockets and stuff, since we're not block shaped.

 

[renard_ruse]

KFC kills enough chickens every year if the carcasses were stacked one on top of each other they would reach half way to the moon.

Factory farming is the greatest evil of our times.

 

[primordial_cooz]

Why would you want to go and stink up the Grand Canyon?

 

[Super-Surprise]

Just one body of water would fill it to the brim!

 

[doctor_insanus]

119.14 trillion.

 

[Liar]

Just one body of water would fill it to the brim!

^^^ Thread won.

No more posts.

 

[Mike_Yates]

KFC kills enough chickens every year if the carcasses were stacked one on top of each other they would reach half way to the moon.

Factory farming is the greatest evil of our times.

Hey, it's being done for money.

 

[Mike_Yates]

I'm guessing it would take tens of trillions of human corpses to fill the grand canyon to capacity.

This is much greater than the global human population, which is approximately seven billion.

 

[GiaCat]

How many politicians are there?

 

[Mike_Yates]

How many politicians are there?

None, politicians have access to massive and sprawling underground "continuity of government" bunkers where they can seek safety and shelter from any global catastrophe, such as a nuclear war, disease pandemic, military invasion, etc...

They can kick back and relax while the whole of human civilization is destroyed just a few miles above their heads.

The mega-rich also have access to these emergency facilities. Some of these bases are so massive, they have their own nuclear power plants, farming and agriculture, water reservoirs, and practically their own functioning economy. It's essentially an underground city.

 

[MichaelinChina]

shame about the typo!

 

[MichaelinChina]

I'm surprised no Corporation has bought the Grand Canyon for a landfill site.

Everything is up for commoditisation, right?

 

[JackLuis]

But! Who Killed Kennedy?

RFK has [I]suspects[/I].