Would there be a difference if we voting slowly, one by one?

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[–] 24 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Per XKCD, nothing significant would happen. Even if all the people were standing in roughly the same area, the Earth would be moved by "less than an atom's width." If people were spread out randomly across the Earth, all the forces effectively cancel, and even less happens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2M8Y0z9Rl0

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  • [–] 9 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

    If 8 billion humans displace 50 gallons each, thats 400 billion gallons. The volume of all oceans is about 1.5 billion cubic kilometers, which is 3.96258e20 gallons.

    Eh, I got tired of trying to do that math, but thats a big frickin difference. I dont think the sea level rise would be measurable.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago* (1 child)

    50gal is quite generous; average adult weight estimate tops out around 80kg and that doesn't account for children. Divided by approximate human density 1010kg/m³ gives 0.08m³ or around 21gal. Multiplying that by 8 billion humans and dividing by the ocean surface area of around 361000000 km² gives approximately... 1.8μm of sea level rise.

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  • [–] 11 points 16 hours ago

    Actually, I’m a physicist from the world famous ETH in Zürich Switzerland, and my team and I have been working on exactly that question for the past five years! We have created an exciting theoretical model (manuscript has been submitted to PNAS, in second round of corrections). We are now focusing on a series of experiments to substantiate our theoretical findings. Alas, Switzerland is a notoriously landlocked country, due to which such experiments are hard to realize. In addition, strict nudity in public laws apply. As a result, all our grants were canceled, and we are now unemployed.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    Would there be a difference if we voting slowly, one by one?

    Could you explain this sentence like I'm dumb?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago

    Nothing noticeable. Eight billion people times 100kg average mass, divided by 360 million square kilometers of ocean surface equals 2222kg/square kilometer. Or, assuming the density of a human being 1, a 2.22mm height difference. Ah, the joys of metrical calculations.

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  • [–] 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    If you liquefied every human on earth and poured them all into one cube, it would only be about 800M per side. Humans collectively aren't that significant.

    For comparison all insects would take up a 1km cube.

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  • [–] -1 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    As a misanthropic Anti-Natalist that views humanity as the ultimate nightmare creature.. Please tell us more about melting humans and the destruction of all sentient life!

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  • [–] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    There'd be a lot of piss mixed in.

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