From: krueger@cs.hope.edu (John Krueger)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles,alt.religion.kibology,alt.culture.internet,alt.culture.usenet,sci.math,alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: Are they able?: Re: What happens when

In article 25416@unislc.slc.unisys.com, msmith@unislc.slc.unisys.com (Matt Smith) writes:
|>MARC EDWARD FORRESTER (mef4@aber.ac.uk) wrote:
|>: The thing is that 1 billion people is only 10^11 kg or so.
|>: Does anyone have the mass of Earth to hand?
|>
|>I weighed it the other week, but I seemed to have misplaced my
|>notebook.
|>
|>Sorry..

Really? How did you do that? A couple of days ago I tried to weigh the Earth by turning my bathroom scale upside-down, but given the size of the Earth it should come as no surprise to all you savy folks that the scale was immediately crushed flat. Now I am unable to remove it from my living room floor, because there is no way I am going to be able to lift up the entire planet to get the scale out from under it.

John ``And I spent the rest of the day trying to get my brother to stand on his head'' Krueger

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