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by froj 1690 days ago
In TFA they count 7.6B humans, but the mass is only the "dry-weight of carbon". So I guess the average person only contains about 8kg of carbon.
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rbanffy 1690 days ago
“Ugly bags of mostly water” is how an alien in Star Trek once described us.
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gumby 1690 days ago
Not merely “water”: it’s the very ocean in my veins.
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