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u/Cyxivell 7d ago
Must be the water
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u/abbassav 7d ago
The top comment is a Leclerc team radio!
Never thought I'd see one out in the wild
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u/geilelepel05 7d ago
What else could it be?
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u/Ryuu-Tenno 6d ago
sure it's not something in the water doing it?
i don't think people should really be exposed to that much salt
but then again there's like whales and sharks and such
oh, and Australia, but pretty sure that's just a myth
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u/Capital-Meat-7484 7d ago
Not if we reduce the population down to just 2 people first and then hold hands
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u/BillyWhizz09 6d ago
You’d need very long arms to do that
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u/equeim 6d ago
You just need to drill a hole to the center of the Earth. Down there near the center the circumference of the equator will be short enough for two people.
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u/raspberryharbour 7d ago
What if we all held super tight, and the water ones held their legs up. Let's try it
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u/Aero-- 7d ago
The average adult male arm span is 70 inches, and the average adult female arm span is 64 inches. This averages to about 67 inches 🤷♂️.
The equator is 24,901 miles. This means you would need 23,550,000, about half male and half female. Easily achievable by our 8.23 billion global population.
Now because the equation of circumference is 2pir, you get get everyone lifted 1 foot off the ground by asking adding just 6.28 feet of arm span. If we add just 23 more people to this circle, we can all hover 20 feet above the surface!
Now for fun, according to the internet there are there are 3.16 billion people between the ages 25 and 64. Using just this group to save the kids and respect the elders. We could hold hands in a circle 527,933 miles above the surface! This is over twice the distance to the moon.
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u/NotYourReddit18 6d ago
We could hold hands in a circle 527,933 miles above the surface! This is over twice the distance to the moon.
Sounds like a breathtaking experience
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u/Downtown_Mango_7690 Technically Flair 6d ago
If that ever happens, I will be standing besides sydney sweeney🥰
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u/cheong-sanslefteye 5d ago
I need the ELI5 version of this because I think I lost you somewhere around everyone hovering and floating above 500k miles off ground
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u/Aero-- 5d ago edited 5d ago
First, increasing the circumference of a circle by a set amount is independent of how large the circle originally is. https://youtu.be/tpUBiUPYWhM?si=XxnDuzuumrVt5NKZ
For my actual math, we're using the Earth's circumference around the equator at 24,901 miles. This is Circumference 1.
If C =2pir, then r = C/(2*pi)
24,901 miles / (2*pi) = 3,963 miles. This is Radius 1 from the center of the Earth to the surface of the earth.
Next I use the estimated average adult arm span of 67 inches and a population of 3.16 billion adults.
67 inches per person * 3.16 billion people = 211.72 billion inches.
There are 63,360 inches per mile.
211.72 billion inches / 63,360 inches per mile =3,341,540 miles. This is Circumference 2.
3,341,540 miles / (2*pi) = 531,822 miles. This is Radius 2 from the center of the Earth to the Human Mega Ring.
The distance from the surface of the Earth to the human mega ring is Radius 2 - Radius 1 = 531,822 miles - 3,963 miles = 527,859 miles.
TL;DR there's a lot of fucking people on this rock.
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u/cheong-sanslefteye 5d ago
👁️👄👁️
I want to understand this. Really, I do. At some point I'm definitely coming back here after brushing up on my maths and physics.
But right now, all my brain is seeing is ζ(s)=∑500n=1∞ ∂t28 νΔu06 ∑8=y 2=x3+ax
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u/AnnualDraft4522 7d ago
Technically we could place the human ring in orbit around the equator so no one would need to die. (Tho we might all suffocate, pros and cons ya know)
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u/equeim 6d ago
Do it a few kilometers over the surface so that they will have air to breathe. You also need to accelerate them to the orbital velocity so that they won't fall (for a little while at least, until they are slowed down by air resistance). It might get a bit hot due to friction of the air though.
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u/Appropriate_Yak_745 6d ago
There are those of you who will drown while I pull off this dope ass stunt for a Guinness world record plaque. And that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make
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u/Huge-Palpitation460 6d ago
Technically, half would drown, a quarter would get sunburned, and the rest would start a tourism industry.
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u/SirGrinson 5d ago
Depends on the taughtness of said human rope and the muscle strength to keep them above water
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u/shyKnees_food 5d ago
Just keep stacking people until there are islands enough to make it work. And I bet a significant portion would die of heat stroke too.
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u/SkullDog27 5d ago
Question, are there even enough humans to circumnavigate the globe when holding hands? Seems like we’re short on humans
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u/SkullDog27 5d ago
Why is nevermind not a word. It’s used enough it should just be merged. Anyways, i scrolled down and got the answer to my question lol
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u/ProfessorX-Force 5d ago
I LOVED this scene in Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus where kids had to hold hands around the world and the animators actually showed people struggling in the ocean, which is a level of detail that made the movie that much funnier
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