or the mass of buildings or natural features.
For starters, I guesstimate the average weight of each person to be 150 pounds.
150 X 6,000,000,000 people is 900,000,000,000
pounds or 450,000,000 tons.
What did each WTC weigh???
What is this compared to the weight of all the autos, or the biomass of ants, whales, etc?
The comparisons might be interesting.
That tonnage is off by a significant amount there… You’re missing 3 zeros, are you not?
900,000,000,000 or 900 billion divided by
2,000 pounds per ton is
450,000,000 or 450 million tons.
The previous calculation was
6,000,000,000 or 6 billion people times
150 pounds/person =
900,000,000,000 or 9 nundred billion pounds.
HOly brain-fart on me today… You’re correct. Nevermind…
Sheesh, and here I’ve been thinking “biomass” is a ten-dollar, Al Gore word for “poop.”
~VOW
This one has been done.
More than half the world’s biomass is microscopic.
If you don’t divide by species, then Plankton outweigh us by several orders of magnitude. I am not convinced that several individual species don’t outweigh us as well.
Krill have us beat in straight weight, probably in several species.
Trees, even by species outweigh humans by a whole lot.
Chickens outnumber us, but I don’t know if it is by enough to make up for the per chicken weight.
Tris
I was wondering the other day whether there are (numerically) more living people than pieces of Lego.
By Mangetout:
“I was wondering the other day whether there are (numerically) more living people than pieces of Lego.”
I betcha there are 200 crayons out there for every human. Also about five Starbucks franchises per individual.
Also do a search for the number of cows in existance… it’s in the billion/s range if I’m not mistaken…
From the Lego web site: http://www.lego.com/eng/info/profile.asp
I KNEW it!
Someone had better had a word with my little brother - he has thousands of lego bricks in a huge tub. This means he is hogging someone else’s share. Anyone want to claim their 52 bricks?