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Re:The human body has 1.8T cells dedicated to defending it by wongarsu on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @10:47AM (#38013415)
The first couple google results suggest that there are about 38 trillion human cells in the average male adult, plus about as many bacterial cells. Estimates vary a bit, but at least the human cell count should be accurate to within 10 trillion.

So estimating at 80 trillion cells per human, that puts our "defense spending" at around 2.2%, quite similar to nation state budgets.

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Re:The human body has 1.8T cells dedicated to defending it by pfannkuchen on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @11:04AM (#38013594)
Doesn’t “defense” spending at the state level also include offense though?
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Re:The human body has 1.8T cells dedicated to defending it by anonporridge on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @11:16AM (#38013698)
Good point, and this is where the analogy breaks down a bit in my mind.

Or at least, this is where the complexity of comparison gets out of hand.

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