Another comparison (although it just shifts the issue from unfathomable sizes to unfathomable quantities): if my calculations are correct, in a 40 light-year by 40 light-year by 40 light-year cube of space, one could tile - equator to equator and pole to pole - 43,500,000 moles of Earths.
Unrelated to anything except calculating large numbers, my favorite statistic of all time:
1) The main source of silk is the larva of Bombyx mori, the domesticated silkworm.
2) 10,000,000,000 (ten billion) pounds of silkworm cocoons are harvested a year.
3) 2,000 to 3,000 cocoons are needed to make a pound. Thus, the annual harvest is approximately 2.5 trillion cocoons.
4) Each cocoon consists of a strand of silk 300 to 900 meters long. If we average, that's 1,500,000,000,000,000 1.5 quadrillion meters of silk each year.
5) A light-year is 9,460,700,000,000,000 meters.
This means that silk worms produce .159 light-years of silk each year, or a light-year of silk every 6.31 years.
5)
Unrelated to anything except calculating large numbers, my favorite statistic of all time:
1) The main source of silk is the larva of Bombyx mori, the domesticated silkworm.
2) 10,000,000,000 (ten billion) pounds of silkworm cocoons are harvested a year.
3) 2,000 to 3,000 cocoons are needed to make a pound. Thus, the annual harvest is approximately 2.5 trillion cocoons.
4) Each cocoon consists of a strand of silk 300 to 900 meters long. If we average, that's 1,500,000,000,000,000 1.5 quadrillion meters of silk each year.
5) A light-year is 9,460,700,000,000,000 meters.
This means that silk worms produce .159 light-years of silk each year, or a light-year of silk every 6.31 years.
5)
How will we know, when the morning comes, we are still human? - 2D
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
