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09/09/11(Fri)03:12:20 No.352513372
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every cell in our body lies the building block of all life, a strand of
DNA. Keep in mind that only the strongest microscopes in the world can
even see it, but if we were to uncoil that strand, it would be just
about six feet long. Wrap your head around that one; a single strand of
my DNA is as long as an average adult male human being.
Still with me? Good, let's go to space.
Consider
this: the adult human body has roughly 100 Trillion cells in it. That's
1 followed by 14 zero's, and that's 600Trillion feet of DNA! Divide
that by 5280, the number of feet in a mile, and you get 13,636,363,636
(that's thirteen billion and change) miles of DNA!
So wrap your head
even further around this one: the planet (proto-planet, dwarf planet,
whatever, it's not my debate) Pluto is only 3.7 billion miles away. That
means the genetic coding of every adult human being could make a round
trip to Pluto and back almost twice.
Last step:
There are 6
billion people in the world. The combined genetic coding of everyone in
the world put together is roughly 81,818,181,816,000,000,000 miles long
(that's 81 quintillion, if anyone's counting). There are only 5.878
trillion miles in a light year. That means that the combined genetic
coding of everyone in the world is slightly less than 14 MILLION LIGHT
YEARS in length. The genetic code of the entire human species could
stretch accross the Milky Way Galaxy 70 TIMES.
And yes, OP is still a candy-ass |
