Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!duke!crm From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Matter transmission and duplication (#366) Message-ID: <6323@duke.UUCP> Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 10:42:32 EDT Article-I.D.: duke.6323 Posted: Sun Sep 22 10:42:32 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 24-Sep-85 03:13:48 EDT References: <3699@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) Organization: Duke University Lines: 32 Summary: In article <3699@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Susser.pasa@Xerox.ARPA writes: >From: Josh Susser > >>From: Keith F. Lynch >> A duplicate isn't satisfactory? Don't you know that the average >>atom in the body only stays there a few weeks? ... > For a person of average mass, say 80 kg, this would >require eating and ABSORBING 20 kg of food a week! While eating 20 kg a >week (about 5 lbs a day) isn't unreasonable, absorbing that many >molecules is ridiculous. >Any molecular biologists out there care to tell me what I'm made of? > >-- Josh Susser Impure water, mostly. People in general require about 2 qts..1 gallon of water a day (and those of you who want to argue -- count up the number of coffes, teas, and sodas you consume; if it still is less than 2 qts (8 cups, a little under 2 litres) then go drink something, for ghodsakes.) That comes out to be 2-4 kilos a day right there. I also recall (this isn't certain, but not a bad ROM I'm sure) that people require about 1.5 to 2.0 kilos of oxygen a day. So that makes up the required 3 kilo a week nicely. Remember, it says ``average molecule'' -- I'm sure that some molecules don't turn over in anything like that length of time. -- Charlie Martin (...mcnc!duke!crm) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com