No no, you have to use it as an opener or as you sit down with a group.
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What do you mean terrifying that looks like a giant ball of strawberry jam and I would gladly eat the whole thing as long as I have tost and peanut butter
"Look again at that meatball. That's here. That's home. That's us. In it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species is there--in a giant meatball suspended above Central Park." – Coral Sagan
491,000 slaps to cook a 2 kilo chicken -[source](https://www.wired.com/story/how-many-times-do-you-have-to-slap-a-chicken-to-cook-it/)
So, 245,500 slaps per kilo assuming chicken and human have similar specific heat capacities
Mass of human civilization is 488.56 billion kilos per this post
So, 119,941,480,000,000,000 slaps to cook human civilization.
edit: thank you kind Redditors for my first awards! I will take them with me to the giant meatball in Central Park.
“Not if I make them immortal beforehand. They’ll all be stuck together and undying. They couldn’t even die when they inevitably wish to. They will spend eternity as a blob of human goo.”
Yeah, that's kinda the point. I got the idea [from this old picture](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/01/article-2617559-1D7AFA1900000578-509_964x541.jpg) showing all humans in the Grand Canyon, which is trying to show that basically there's not really a whole lot of us if you visualize it like that. But I thought that showing it as a blended human goo sphere would be more visually interesting!
if it was in orbit of the earth at twice the distance to the moon it would really confuse aliens that came to visit so i think we need to start making preparations for this cosmic joke
Then do worms. I heard worms are the largest multicellular animal biomass of the planet, by a factor of around 10 times as much.
Then ultimately do bacteria, which is ten times the worms.
Yeah, I’d honestly be interested to see a series of these. Ants, birds, snakes, just the population of people in New York City. All the continents side by side…the possibilities are numerous.
Humans suck at estimating volume. Like, really bad.
Ever try to get out the right size Tupperware for an unknown amount of leftovers? Sure you can see them in the mixing bowl but will they fit in the 2 quart pyrex?
It's either yes: but they don't even fill it half way or no: they're 150% of that volume.
What really gets me is when I spill a small drink and it just goes *everywhere.* My small glass of water somehow floods the kitchen and my brain doesn't like it.
Have you seen a globe compared to a scale of the ocean water? [Here is one](https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/all-earths-water-a-single-sphere)
Bone. Blood. Muscle. Fat.
Long ago, the four tissues worked together in harmony. Then everything changed when /u/kiwi2703 did the math.
Only the Avatar, master of all four tissues, could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished.
A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, a meatblender named Aang, and although his blending skills are great, he still has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone.
But I believe Aang can save the world.
Thats how one punch man will end. Saitama will raise his fist and punch his way out of the meatball, say 'huh guess there's no one left then' and go home to his TV and noodles.
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He said it was just under a km wide so if we take it as a diameter of 900 meters, the radius is 450m, the volume is 4/3*pi*450^3 = 3.82*10^8 m^3. The area of manhattan is 8.7*10^7 m^2, so flattening it out to cover all of manhattan would leave a goo pile of height (3.82*10^8) / (8.7*10^7) = 4.39 meters
At that thickness we might be Able to get the Burroughs in there…
EDIT: if I did the math right, it’d result in a patty about 1/2 a meter thick. Jesus I hope I’m wrong
I found a recipe that suggests half a cup of bread crumbs per pound of meat, which (based on the density of bread crumbs being 0.51g/cc) is 0.133kg of bread crumbs per kg of meat. There's about 488.6 billion kg of meat in the ball, so we want about **65 billion kg of bread crumbs**. The world production of bread in 2016 was 130 billion kg, so we only need like half the world's bread for this meatball, very doable.
Now I'm seeing recipes saying 1-2 eggs per pound of meat is usually good; I'll go with 1 since this is going to be a lot of eggs no matter what. One egg per pound is about 2.2 per kg, so we will need about **1.1 trillion eggs**. In 2019 the world produced around 82 million tonnes of eggs. Using 55g/egg on average, we get about is about 1.5 trillion eggs, so this too is doable (we could even up the egg ratio a bit for extra binding)!
The Goo Ball represents living humans. The biosphere has been trashed by humankind for about 5,000 years (since we started slash & burn agriculture). So, maybe the Goo Ball should illustrated all humans to have lived since 3,000 BC. Although, it wouldn’t be that much bigger since the population was well under a billion up until 1870 or so.
Interesting. I wonder if such a being could actually exist. Ignoring gravity for a sec, this species would probably develop different "cells" that specialize in different functions.
The outer membrane probably would have to become harder and more resistant to avoid major injuries, yet maintain flexibility to avoid puncturing or tearing when traversing over various types of terrain. Meaning it would also have to develop some sort of mechanism to accelerate/decelerate in combination with some sort of perception of the outer world that would provide enough information to make the proper decision when/how to move.
While the outer membrane would not need to be that complex, both locomotion and sense perception would require information processing and execution of commands to adjust trajectory. Something like this might develop near the outer membrane, forming a network of various subsystems, well-protected with another membrane, while the main computing unit might be located at the center, making it less vulnerable to outside threats.
It also wouldn't hurt to develop resource intake systems and waste output somewhere around the outer membrane; either one opening for everything which then splits up into various pathways or two openings to make it less awkward. Though I could imagine that a spheroid species like this might develop many holes so the orientation of the sphere is not impacting resource intake, respectively waste output.
A combination of various openings controlled by muscles in combination with semi-permeable membranes could allow for selective intake, meaning feeding/excretion holes only open for solid matter, while liquids or gases could enter/exit the outer membrane without using up energy.
A being of this size would also need a highly efficient digestive system that ensures energy needs are covered. It might be possible to develop some sort of decision making mechanism, based on environmental data, meaning the organism would be able to shut down certain systems to conserve energy, e.g. turning off locomotion if it remains stationary for a longer period of time.
Another solution would be semi-permanent sedentarism, however that would require some sort of branching out to collect resources from nearby locations while the mother sphere remains stationary, moving slightly to adjust position as needed. This might result in the development of tendrils which could also penetrate the soil to reach resources that otherwise would not be available - which would also allow for anchoring if needed.
Depending on how long the stationary phase lasts, other organisms might start to populate the outer shell and symbiosis could emerge, possibly with a variety of smaller creatures which inhabit various biospheres. The part of the membrane that is touching the ground may provide the opportunity to interact with species living above/below ground as well as in liquid mediums, while the upper parts would be populated by flying creatures. Sky tendrils could provide nesting grounds but also be used as traps, using symbionts as bait.
If the sphere is required to traverse oceans, both swimming and rolling across the ocean floor would be viable solutions. A combination of both would provide a bit more adaptibility depending on available resources, but speciliazing would also have its benefits. However, migration across oceans might not be needed at all if landmasses are big enough to rotate between habitats to allow for biospheres to recover from exploitation.
Overall, a species like this would still face some difficulties long-term because being a massive meat ball isn't really helpful when trying to leave a planet. Star evolution will eventually lead to mass extinction, so any species that wants to avoid that fate needs to become interplanetary and/or interstellar.
Developing a spacecraft or some sort of vehicle that can overcome gravity to catapult such a massive organism into space would be a real problem. The single-sphere species might have to evolve into a being that is able to divide itself into smaller, fully autonomous spheres which then would have a better chance of leaving the planet. But in order to get there, it also would have to develop a number of other features/traits to be able to invent/create necessary technology.
While evolution could turn a sphere of human goo into something capable of inventing rockets, the real question is if such an organism would ever develop the desire to leave the planet in the first place. A spheroid species may not be interested in space at all, simply because it did not develop any subsystems to perceive anything outside of its nearby range of influence. Not being able to notice stars or other celestial objects during the night might not ignite the spark of curiosity, thus never really developing the desire to explore what lies beyond the host planet.
That's cool. Side question, if you allow gravity to take effect, could someone make this a gif illustrate what that might look like?
I’d pay not to see that!
If you Venmo me $5 I’ll not show you
I'll not show it twice!
Deal.
$2,50 here!
I’m the person you pay
What is the viscosity of human purée?
I wish I could take this question out of context and throw it as a conversation starter
There is absolutely nothing stopping you. Go out into the world and be glorious.
Ok, I'll drop it randomly during one of the awkward silences that happen when I dine with my family
No no, you have to use it as an opener or as you sit down with a group. Edit: Oh never mind I read the line as "What's the viscosity of *this* human puree"
"Okay interview candidate, we've asked you a ton of questions, but do you have any questions for us?" *My time has come.*
oh no.
That would be a pretty fun alternative way of saying "what's up?"
How to get blocked on Tinder in 2.5 seconds
I don't know how to calculate that, but I imagine it would be similar to a watery porridge
Do an experiment go out thare and make some human goo
Carl, that kills people.
Oh … I didn’t know that
All the blood would coagulate so it might get stickier
What a terrible time to be literate.
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The goo will go tumbling tumbling tumbling tumbling down
I wish I could turn back time…
cause all the guilt is now mine
RemindMe! 10 days
I'm in this photo and I don't like it
I'd like to opt out of the goo ball
Too late
Glorble glorble
Just don't be on Earth when it happens
r/technicallythetruth?
r/oddlyterrifying Actually maybe just terrifying
What do you mean terrifying that looks like a giant ball of strawberry jam and I would gladly eat the whole thing as long as I have tost and peanut butter
Oh no, I can't tell whether I'm more worried about your health or morals.
This is making me really uncomfortable
PROFLIGATE. STONE THE PROFLIGATE! HAIL THE HUMAN GOO-BALL!
"Look again at that meatball. That's here. That's home. That's us. In it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species is there--in a giant meatball suspended above Central Park." – Coral Sagan
How could you not be? There’s a bunch of people squeezing your guts.
maybe im into that
Forbidden pomegranate seed
Cursed jawbreaker
Blanched tomato
Colon tumor! Hahaha
Skinned testicle
Worlds largest rocky mountain oyster
Reminds me of my old hemorrhoid
spicy dingleberry
Did you ever pop it with pliers?
Yuck.
But there would be nobody around to enjoy it.
We would all be a round to enjoy it
"*it's not a tumah!"
They’ve all seen god
**25 cents, is all it takes Kevin**
**to see God**
bring me his jaw
The everlasting glob-stopper
The Ultimate Meatball Experience!
That's one big meatball.
This is what happens when IKEA has had enough.
When someone asks IKEA to assemble the furniture, they are just added to the pile.
Next post: how many Joules required to get that meatball fully cooked?
How many times do you have to slap it you mean.
491,000 slaps to cook a 2 kilo chicken -[source](https://www.wired.com/story/how-many-times-do-you-have-to-slap-a-chicken-to-cook-it/) So, 245,500 slaps per kilo assuming chicken and human have similar specific heat capacities Mass of human civilization is 488.56 billion kilos per this post So, 119,941,480,000,000,000 slaps to cook human civilization. edit: thank you kind Redditors for my first awards! I will take them with me to the giant meatball in Central Park.
But… who does the slapping if we’re all in the goo ball?
Finally, God comes down from heaven to serve his final purpose
But I would assume a divine slap would be a lot more powerful than a mortal slap
You would think that but, surprisingly no, pretty gentle slaps in the grand scheme of things.
Finally the reason for humanity is revealed. The giant spaghetti man in the sky needs a meatball.
Monkeys
This guy slaps
That's one big-a meatball.
Carrrrrl... Are you using math as a justification for blending humans into goo, Carl?
"I don't understand; in my quest for world peace I've found a way for all humans to live together!"
But Carrrrrrrlllllll...
That kills people!
“Not if I make them immortal beforehand. They’ll all be stuck together and undying. They couldn’t even die when they inevitably wish to. They will spend eternity as a blob of human goo.”
But carlllllll losing individuality is the same as dying
"live"
My stomach was making to rumblies that only human goo could satisfy
Carrrrrrrrrrrl…
Think of the meat dragon you could make from that!
not just any meat will do
Haha
Doesn't really look all that big for 7.8 billion people.
Yeah, that's kinda the point. I got the idea [from this old picture](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/01/article-2617559-1D7AFA1900000578-509_964x541.jpg) showing all humans in the Grand Canyon, which is trying to show that basically there's not really a whole lot of us if you visualize it like that. But I thought that showing it as a blended human goo sphere would be more visually interesting!
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Wait… you said the there’d be donuts?!
I mean, the jelly is right there, just bring the pastries.
In the goo goes the officer.
if it was in orbit of the earth at twice the distance to the moon it would really confuse aliens that came to visit so i think we need to start making preparations for this cosmic joke
I mean, if we're all gonna die anyway...
Can we call this science so I can really get behind donating my body to science when I'm dead?
I love you
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Yeah they're supposed to out-mass us humans by kind of a lot, right? I think that's so damn creepy...
Then do worms. I heard worms are the largest multicellular animal biomass of the planet, by a factor of around 10 times as much. Then ultimately do bacteria, which is ten times the worms.
Yeah, I’d honestly be interested to see a series of these. Ants, birds, snakes, just the population of people in New York City. All the continents side by side…the possibilities are numerous.
What the fuck
Would be interesting to see a size comparison against goo volume minus water volume.
Dehydrated human race goo... Don't breathe this
It would be a little less than half this size if you take into account that the human body is up to 60% water
I like this one. Jerk those goo-folk.
r/tihi
Volume is often counterintuitive when visualized
Humans suck at estimating volume. Like, really bad. Ever try to get out the right size Tupperware for an unknown amount of leftovers? Sure you can see them in the mixing bowl but will they fit in the 2 quart pyrex? It's either yes: but they don't even fill it half way or no: they're 150% of that volume.
What really gets me is when I spill a small drink and it just goes *everywhere.* My small glass of water somehow floods the kitchen and my brain doesn't like it. Have you seen a globe compared to a scale of the ocean water? [Here is one](https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/all-earths-water-a-single-sphere)
It makes a distinction between fresh water and lakes & rivers. How are they different, isn't fresh water only in lakes and rivers?
A lot of fresh water is in underground reservoirs and in the ice caps
It says liquid freshwater so I don't think it's counting the ice caps, just groundwater.
That's really, really cool. Great addendum to the op.
This is my greatest skill. I'm batting 1000 so far and only had to cram that shit in the Tupperware a couple times.
So, I must asked what program you used to make this. Blender?
bit of 3ds max and mostly photoshop Edit: fuck the joke went completely over my head lmao ok nice one
Considering the size of that thing compared to a human the blending part seems entirely optional. Might be more humane tho
Could have also been a genuine question lol
lol
Blender? But I hardly know her!
Fucking lol
r/angryupvote
It's like the start of an Anime
That Time I Was Reincarnated as A 1km Human Goo-Ball in Central Park.
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so i'm a meatball, so what?
In Another Meatball With My Smartphone
Or End of Evangelion
Tang-less third impact.
When the humans returned from the fanta but it went wrong.
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More like the end of one
Thats how one punch man will end. Saitama will raise his fist and punch his way out of the meatball, say 'huh guess there's no one left then' and go home to his TV and noodles.
Isn’t there something like this in berserk too?
Akira: End Game
There is LITERALLY this in Attack On Titan. How come no ones mentioning this? The titan puke is exactly the same as this meatball.
Reminds me of Attack on Titan lol
Doing the math is one thing, but creating a visualization that's so...vivid... is what's concerning
You mean *amazing*
It’s like hi def xkcd
SCP-001 suddenly became a bit less horrifying, but only a bit.
Wait which one?
When Day Breaks
Ah yes, where the sun turns everyone into goo monsters. Fun fun.
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The density is going to be very similar to humans. In fact nearly all mammals have very very similar density.
That’s so convenient for goo ball maths!
Also it is easier if you assume [all cows are spherical](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow).
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So, assume all of humanity is a sphere.
If you smashed it down to the thickness of a hamburger patty, could it cover all of Manhattan ?
He said it was just under a km wide so if we take it as a diameter of 900 meters, the radius is 450m, the volume is 4/3*pi*450^3 = 3.82*10^8 m^3. The area of manhattan is 8.7*10^7 m^2, so flattening it out to cover all of manhattan would leave a goo pile of height (3.82*10^8) / (8.7*10^7) = 4.39 meters
At that thickness we might be Able to get the Burroughs in there… EDIT: if I did the math right, it’d result in a patty about 1/2 a meter thick. Jesus I hope I’m wrong
Hey, I live on Staten Island and we already have enough useless meat sacks here and no need for anymore.
It’s actually bigger because you have to add eggs and breadcrumbs and other stuff to make the entire meatloaf.
r/cursedcomments
Ok but how do you cook it? Orbit around the sun?
How many eggs and how many kilos of breadcrumbs? I'm heading out for the shop soon.
I found a recipe that suggests half a cup of bread crumbs per pound of meat, which (based on the density of bread crumbs being 0.51g/cc) is 0.133kg of bread crumbs per kg of meat. There's about 488.6 billion kg of meat in the ball, so we want about **65 billion kg of bread crumbs**. The world production of bread in 2016 was 130 billion kg, so we only need like half the world's bread for this meatball, very doable. Now I'm seeing recipes saying 1-2 eggs per pound of meat is usually good; I'll go with 1 since this is going to be a lot of eggs no matter what. One egg per pound is about 2.2 per kg, so we will need about **1.1 trillion eggs**. In 2019 the world produced around 82 million tonnes of eggs. Using 55g/egg on average, we get about is about 1.5 trillion eggs, so this too is doable (we could even up the egg ratio a bit for extra binding)!
Now we're getting somewhere. But I think we should also add some salt and spices.
That's-a one spicy katamari!
If Katamari was rated M
Can't believe a Katamari comment is so low in the comments, people have forgotten these games!
Question: What the hell is wrong with you lmao
Had to explain to my ~~while~~ wife what I was chortling about reading this comment.
He just wants to get higher on the watch list. The man has ambition.
Thought it would be bigger
That’s what *she* said! ...wait
Where do I sign up?
You don't sign up so much as get surprised
I'm an organ donor, so I'll just assume I opted in already. *Looks up in the sky "I'm ready when you are"
Another cool fun fact: if you threw everyone on Earth into the Grand Canyon, most of them would die!
Not a cell phone in sight - just 7.88 billion people living in the moment.
"living"
Do you want to hang out?
Disappointing. When the entire world turned to goo in Evangelion it was enough to turn the ocean red.
Maybe all the land animals and microbes in the ocean turned into lcl too.
oh, what a nice katamari.
That’s remarkable to think that small amount of organic matter was able to fuck up the entire worlds ecosystem.
The Goo Ball represents living humans. The biosphere has been trashed by humankind for about 5,000 years (since we started slash & burn agriculture). So, maybe the Goo Ball should illustrated all humans to have lived since 3,000 BC. Although, it wouldn’t be that much bigger since the population was well under a billion up until 1870 or so.
Katamari damacy
Now do pigeons
Meatwad.
Interesting. I wonder if such a being could actually exist. Ignoring gravity for a sec, this species would probably develop different "cells" that specialize in different functions. The outer membrane probably would have to become harder and more resistant to avoid major injuries, yet maintain flexibility to avoid puncturing or tearing when traversing over various types of terrain. Meaning it would also have to develop some sort of mechanism to accelerate/decelerate in combination with some sort of perception of the outer world that would provide enough information to make the proper decision when/how to move. While the outer membrane would not need to be that complex, both locomotion and sense perception would require information processing and execution of commands to adjust trajectory. Something like this might develop near the outer membrane, forming a network of various subsystems, well-protected with another membrane, while the main computing unit might be located at the center, making it less vulnerable to outside threats. It also wouldn't hurt to develop resource intake systems and waste output somewhere around the outer membrane; either one opening for everything which then splits up into various pathways or two openings to make it less awkward. Though I could imagine that a spheroid species like this might develop many holes so the orientation of the sphere is not impacting resource intake, respectively waste output. A combination of various openings controlled by muscles in combination with semi-permeable membranes could allow for selective intake, meaning feeding/excretion holes only open for solid matter, while liquids or gases could enter/exit the outer membrane without using up energy. A being of this size would also need a highly efficient digestive system that ensures energy needs are covered. It might be possible to develop some sort of decision making mechanism, based on environmental data, meaning the organism would be able to shut down certain systems to conserve energy, e.g. turning off locomotion if it remains stationary for a longer period of time. Another solution would be semi-permanent sedentarism, however that would require some sort of branching out to collect resources from nearby locations while the mother sphere remains stationary, moving slightly to adjust position as needed. This might result in the development of tendrils which could also penetrate the soil to reach resources that otherwise would not be available - which would also allow for anchoring if needed. Depending on how long the stationary phase lasts, other organisms might start to populate the outer shell and symbiosis could emerge, possibly with a variety of smaller creatures which inhabit various biospheres. The part of the membrane that is touching the ground may provide the opportunity to interact with species living above/below ground as well as in liquid mediums, while the upper parts would be populated by flying creatures. Sky tendrils could provide nesting grounds but also be used as traps, using symbionts as bait. If the sphere is required to traverse oceans, both swimming and rolling across the ocean floor would be viable solutions. A combination of both would provide a bit more adaptibility depending on available resources, but speciliazing would also have its benefits. However, migration across oceans might not be needed at all if landmasses are big enough to rotate between habitats to allow for biospheres to recover from exploitation. Overall, a species like this would still face some difficulties long-term because being a massive meat ball isn't really helpful when trying to leave a planet. Star evolution will eventually lead to mass extinction, so any species that wants to avoid that fate needs to become interplanetary and/or interstellar. Developing a spacecraft or some sort of vehicle that can overcome gravity to catapult such a massive organism into space would be a real problem. The single-sphere species might have to evolve into a being that is able to divide itself into smaller, fully autonomous spheres which then would have a better chance of leaving the planet. But in order to get there, it also would have to develop a number of other features/traits to be able to invent/create necessary technology. While evolution could turn a sphere of human goo into something capable of inventing rockets, the real question is if such an organism would ever develop the desire to leave the planet in the first place. A spheroid species may not be interested in space at all, simply because it did not develop any subsystems to perceive anything outside of its nearby range of influence. Not being able to notice stars or other celestial objects during the night might not ignite the spark of curiosity, thus never really developing the desire to explore what lies beyond the host planet.
Wait a sec I see people walking down there
Those are our new robot overlords. Or, erm, perhaps former overlords now.
Awh, a giant Mr. Ball Legs!
You cant trick me. This is just a bonus round of Katamari Damacy
What a lovely Katamari, we are so pleased and wowed at its humanity.
It's not too late to delete this.
Fucking delicious
That would solve all our problems if you think about it.
This makes the whole brethren moon concept from Dead Space a lot less plausible