Subj : Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison To : All From : A Friend Date : Thu Jul 17 2014 21:57:16 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. --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1) .