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To: rgboomers

It’s a question an old high-school teacher of mine once posed to show just how much people over-estimate man’s place on Earth.

You are correct in your estimate. A hole 1 mile square and less than 1/2 mile deep would be a grave large enough to dump all six billion people.

It’s hard to imagine how microscopic a speck that is.

Most people are math-challenged and give a knee-jerk response like “a hole the size of Texas !”


91 posted on 04/25/2007 11:14:18 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (Liberals aren't atheists. They worship government -- including human sacrifices.)
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To: Kellis91789

I accept your estimate of a hole even smaller than I estimated on the grounds that I made my calculations on the basis that all humans were adults and Americans. This would delibrately give me a hole too big. Don’t want any feet, hands or assorted body parts sticking out above ground.


97 posted on 04/26/2007 5:26:05 AM PDT by rgboomers (This space purposely left blank)
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