And if you took each atom of all the humans alive and stacked them in a line (assuming 1 angstrom per atom and 7E17 atoms in a human), it would be roughly 60 light years long.

But if you pack the same atoms in a cube, that's 17 centimeters. ((8e9*7e17)^(1/3)*1e-10=0.17)

Late reply but my original numbers were wrong, it’s 7E27 atoms in a human according to wolfram, I think I just misinterpreted its original output when I tried to put it all in one formula: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=how+many+atoms+in+a+hum...

The answer is still close to 60 LY (73.99LY) but it changes the cube size significantly:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%288e9*7e27%29%5E%281%2...

(8e9*7e27)^(1/3)*1e-10 = ~382 meters on each side of the cube.

The many ways that protein can fold.

Gosh, you're right.

Assuming:

- 5,250 can stand front to back

- 3,500 side-by-side

- 750 on top of each other

That's more than 13 billion humans you could fit in said cube.

That would get pretty stinky though.

Also pretty hot, since if I remember correctly, the waste heat of a human is higher per volume (or was that mass ?) than of the sun !

The "What If?" books by Randall Munroe (of XKCD fame) cover topics like this with that kind of thought process.

There are 8 billion people on earth. And Texas is 172 million acres. I don't think the math works out.

We (the humans) would fit into Texas regardless of whether the land we owned would ;-)

915 square feet is still enough for some solar cells, a bio digester, an aquaponics setup with vegetable garden, a cabinet full of quail, a cot, a rocket stove, and a small shed.