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by ricksunny 491 days ago
>Every one of us has tens of trillions of neutrinos passing through us every second, but fewer than five of them actually interact with the matter in our bodies in our entire lifetimes.”

Oh, but those five...

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Next time I trip over nothing I am blaming those "darn neutrinos messing up my knee!"
The funny thing is a km^3 scale detector like km3net or icecube has roughly the same mass as all humans combined
Equally hilarious, the Kalgoorlie Super Pit has a volume of 3.15 cubic kilometers.

That's a single, albeit large, gold mining pit and a fraction of the even greater volume excavated by humans looking for shiny stuff.

We mine about a cubic mile of oil every year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cubic_Mile_of_Oil). That’s 4 km³.