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> weighs about 40 kg per meter

For reference, a human child weighs about 15 kg per meter. But since humans grow in 3 dimensions, a healthy adult human will be around 40–45 kg per meter, similar to the cable. In our current overweight society, realistic adult humans are of course heavier.




What’s the cost difference in using people vs cable? If we make the assumption that people can be bought at insurance rates and have equal capacity to a cable.


Can you convert that to football fields?


This is the UK so our standard units for populist science writing are "Wembley Stadiums", "Wimbledon Tennis Courts", and "Royal Albert Halls"




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