A few days ago
How many persons does it take to make a chain from California to England~ asked by Brian 5 yrs old?
Brian wants to know this and asked me tonight as we were night time talking about the earth and the sun and space and all kinds of things and it lead to him asking me this so I got him out of bed so we could come ask. we searched and found its about 5442 miles. thanks for any *real* answers ~Brian’s Mom 🙂
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A few days ago
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I took your 5442 miles, converted it to 8760km.
Average male is 177cm, average female 163 — I split the difference and said 170cms average. In km, that comes out at 0.0017km.
So, assuming they lay end to end, feet to head, then
8760 / 0.0017 = 5,152,941 people. But lets allow them to stretch out as little. People hate other people’s feet in their hair, if you allow them to hold onto the people above them’s ankles.
That lets us round down to around 5 million people, which I think is a more understandable number for a kid.
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A few days ago
Remember “Hands across America”? I would do a search on that. They estimated how many people it would take, I believe. That would at least give you an idea of Ca to east coast. Figure that distance and the distance to England.
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A few days ago
L.A. To London is 5933 miles
5933 miles is 31326240 feet
An Average persons arm-span is about 5 feet.
31326240 / 5 = 6265248
So, about 6,265,248 people
If you used 5442 miles.. 5,746,752 people
…..and a little more than half are treading water
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