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If every human held hands around the equator, it would make a very long line.

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No, a line is when there are people waiting in front of you, not when they’re beside you holding your hand.

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If 8 billion people hold hands and every person would take up 1.3m, the line would go around the equator 250 times. About 6 billion would drown.

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Solving climate change.

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Only if all the billionaires and 1% top polluters are the ones who die

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True. Still: how much would the sea level rise?

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Not if the chain were pulled taut enough.

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But if you’re a link in a ring chain, isn’t pulling just tightening it ?

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Well, now both seem right. Can we get a physicist consultation? If you pull a rope bridge from both sides, it raises it. But if low enough, that puts you in the water…?

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There is a length at which the weight of the rope itself exceeds the force exerted to tighten the rope and not break it. So basically you can have a tight shirter rope, longer saggy rope, or you have 2 ropes.

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In that case people would be dismembered, and then drown.

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True, Captain Obvious

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β€œI’d like to teach the world to swim,
Oh shit, was that a shark?”

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teach the world to swim

Just look at this picture, all the water around the world. It is swimming already, isn’t it?

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The Coke commercial was the first thing that came to mind even after all these years. I never knew as a kid I was watching a mass murder/suicide.

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What? Did I miss something?

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Would they though? Surely the people on land could hold the weight.

Maybe not across the Pacific, Atlantic maybe. Just fashion a human suspension bridge.

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