08-26-2014, 02:31 AM
Some claim that "Dinosaurs" did not go extinct; they evolved, as usual, or if one prefers, as planned.
They taste just like chicken.
Some math fun:
Say 7 Billion People on Earth, and each weighs 50Kg. (Note that the last billion are all under the age of ~14.)
That's ~350 Billion Kilograms, which seems like a lot. But it isn't really.
Put them all through a blender, and you have roughly 350 Billion liters of Human Soup.
That's roughly 350 Million cubic meters, or a cube ~700 meters per side.
Housing such a cube poses difficulties, leakage being one of the worst, but it is not insoluble, and there isn't any need really.
The Grand Canyon gets up to 1800 Meters deep, so just find a likely corner, and pour it all in. Once Gravity does its job, all that is left is a rather large pink stain in one corner.
The numbers are pretty big still, so let's just take Manhattan, which has a permanent population of around 1.6 Million. (This has been stable for decades.) New Yorkers can get fairly large, so let's bump up the weight to 70KG per Manhattanite.
~112 Million Kilos, ~112 Million Liters, ~112,000 Cubic Meters. A cube a bit less than 50 meters to a side.
The Empire State Building is around a Million cubic meters, so if one liquifies the population of Manhattan, and pours it into the Empire State Building, it would reach the 12th story, give or take a story or two.
These numbers don't take into account one critical factor- Shoes.
Assuming that half the World population is wearing shoes just before Liquefaction, that means that there will be around 7 billion shoes to deal with.
Just what does one do with that many shoes?
Eustace