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[+] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [โ€“] [S] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Did you know that if you took every elephant on earth and stacked them up to the moon, they would all pretty much die?

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  • [+] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    If 8 billion people hold hands and every person would take up 1.3m, the line would go around the equator 250 times. About 6 billion would drown.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not if the chain were pulled taut enough.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    But if you're a link in a ring chain, isn't pulling just tightening it ?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Well, now both seem right. Can we get a physicist consultation? If you pull a rope bridge from both sides, it raises it. But if low enough, that puts you in the water...?

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 years ago*

    Would they though? Surely the people on land could hold the weight.

    Maybe not across the Pacific, Atlantic maybe. Just fashion a human suspension bridge.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    โ€œIโ€™d like to teach the world to swim,
    Oh shit, was that a shark?โ€

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago

    True, Captain Obvious

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