Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day

Re:Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day by tuatoru on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:59AM (#29105203)

> with humans weighing in at 0.06 gigatons

At that time, perhaps. If average human mass is 30 kg, with 8 billion of us, we mass about 0.24 Gt.

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Re:Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day by froj on Thursday November 04, 2021 @06:18AM (#29105307)

In TFA they count 7.6B humans, but the mass is only the "dry-weight of carbon". So I guess the average person only contains about 8kg of carbon.

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Re:Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day by rbanffy on Thursday November 04, 2021 @06:56AM (#29105525)

“Ugly bags of mostly water” is how an alien in Star Trek once described us.

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Re:Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day by gumby on Thursday November 04, 2021 @01:27PM (#29110031)

Not merely “water”: it’s the very ocean in my veins.

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