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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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