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Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 8:28 AM |
in a cubical
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Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 7:17 PM |
Actually, an average non-fat 6-feet-person needs about 6 cubic feet: 6 feet height, a Little less than 1 foot dept and a little more than 1 foot width. If you don't put people in cubic boxs, but stack them, the volume is of course even less.
But actually people usually stand on the ground and the Definition of the border of outer space is only abitrary. So the total volume that can be "stored" on earth is not even well defined. So it would make more sense to calculate the surface that the world population needs.
However, "full" doesn't necessary mean, that the space is completely taken up. E.g. a hotel is considered full, if all beds are taken and earth could be considered full, if there are as many people on earth as the ecosystem supports. Nobodey knows an exact number, but many scientists think, that the earth's ecosystem cannot support the current population on the long term and the only reason why it works on the short term is because people use fossile energy.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 10:42 PM |
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