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mystery-ak:
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/if-you-put-every-living-human-on-a-pile-it-would-only-1569188500?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

If you put every living human on a pile, it would only take this space

Jesus Diaz
Today 9:11am



According to the always entertaining Vsauce, this is the volume that the entire human population would take if you put everyone on a pile in the Grand Canyon. We are just a bunch of ants, yet we have managed to transform the entire landscape of Earth.*

* Even if you took all of humanity across all the ages—an estimated 106 billion—the piles—about 15 of these—wouldn't cover the Grand Canyon. Not even a significant fraction.

alicewonders:
Wow, that's hard to believe.  Now take that pile and put it in relation to  the size of our sun!  Now, compare it to the size of the universe!  The magnitude of what we are part of blows your mind!

NavyCanDo:
I seen the same type of graphic once on our landfills - showing how if we were to empty every landfill in the United States (or maybe it was the planet) and dig one big hole to put it all in, the size and dept of the hole would be far smaller than we would thnk it would be - and but a spot on the whole globe.

Dexter:

--- Quote from: alicewonders on April 29, 2014, 02:59:32 pm ---Wow, that's hard to believe.  Now take that pile and put it in relation to  the size of our sun!  Now, compare it to the size of the universe!  The magnitude of what we are part of blows your mind!

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There are 300 billion stars just in the Milky Way, which is a relatively small galaxy. There are just as many galaxies in the known universe, each having countless billions of their own stars. Most of the stars have at least a handful of planets orbiting them as well. If Earth like conditions were 1 in 10 billion, there would still be billions of potential Earth like planets out there. I don't understand how some people can even entertain the idea of us being the only life in the universe.

Dexter:
Also, that pile would seem a lot bigger if you were actually standing in front of it. haha

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