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by cozzyd 493 days ago
The funny thing is a km^3 scale detector like km3net or icecube has roughly the same mass as all humans combined
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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.