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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Does space relieve crowding?
Message-ID: <27@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Sep-83 13:46:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 21 13:46:33 1983
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I, for one don't believe that 70 tons of alive matter figure.  A simple
astronomer's kind of order-of-magnitude calculation:
	4 billion people (roughly)
		x
	1/20 th of a ton (100 lbs a bit small but right order of magnitude)
yields  200 million tons for the human "alive matter" alone.
 William L. Sebok {allegra,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,kpno}!astrovax!wls