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digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineI was entertained by the NPR coverage of how much the water in a hurricane weighs, though, doing some quick mental math afterwards, they could have made one very interesting point.
100,000,000 four-ton elephants = 400,000,000 tons, or about 800,000,000,000 (eight hundred billion) pounds.
If the average human being weighs around 120 pounds, and there are about 6.7 billion of us... a good-sized hurricane weighs as much as the entire human population.
That's a big twinkie.
100,000,000 four-ton elephants = 400,000,000 tons, or about 800,000,000,000 (eight hundred billion) pounds.
If the average human being weighs around 120 pounds, and there are about 6.7 billion of us... a good-sized hurricane weighs as much as the entire human population.
That's a big twinkie.
