Timeline for Would killing 444 billion humans leave any physical impact on Earth that's measurable?
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| Jun 20 at 23:12 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | Also, as people suffocate rebreathing all that CO2 they will start to exhale carbon monoxide which is far more deadly. | |
| Jun 19 at 8:32 | comment | added | Taemyr | Lake Nyos affected about 25 km radius. NK has far more area to work with. So release of CO2 from breathing is likely not a huge problem. | |
| Jun 19 at 7:24 | comment | added | Arsenal | @Obie2.0 no, that was just the conversion of the CO2 due to breathing of the victims to tons. I haven't calculated anything beyond that, because that was what Tom was having trouble with calculating. | |
| Jun 19 at 5:35 | comment | added | Obie 2.0 | @Arsenal - That assumes 100% conversion of carbon atoms to carbon dioxide during decay. The problem is that not only is carbon dioxide not the only greenhouse gas produced during decay—methane is another, for instance—but some carbon will also be captured by bacteria and some will react with minerals in the soil to form inorganic carbon-containing compounds. | |
| Jun 17 at 15:02 | comment | added | Arsenal |
444e6 l/V_m×((12+2×16)g/mol) to t (Qalculate) = 860 t CO2
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| Jun 17 at 13:14 | comment | added | Nelson | Human body deposition is going to be an issue within days, and you have a LOT of them. | |
| Jun 17 at 12:16 | comment | added | Syndic | @komodosp it certainly would, over time - the question is how fast decomposition happens and releases gasses. For the first 4 minutes, the breathing definitely is the bigger part. After that I don't know how fast meat decomposes and releases gasses - every 44 hours we get another load of breathing gasses, followed by another deposit of meat that can start rotting... but over the course of the 5 years that this process takes, I think you'd be right - if nothing drastic happens before then, all that rot will become more significant at SOME point. | |
| Jun 17 at 9:24 | comment | added | komodosp | Wouldn't the four minutes worth of exhaled CO2 gasses pale in comparison to the gasses released by the decomposing body paste of 444,444,444,444 people? | |
| Jun 17 at 6:18 | history | edited | Tom | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 17 at 5:54 | history | answered | Tom | CC BY-SA 4.0 |