Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uokvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!lmaher From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: More on TREK III (Heavy duty SPOILER - (nf) Message-ID: <5800026@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 02:15:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uokvax.5800026 Posted: Tue Jun 19 02:15:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 05:51:07 EDT References: <1107@decwrl.UUCP> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:decwrl:-110700:uokvax:5800026:000:970 Nf-From: uokvax!lmaher Jun 19 01:15:00 1984 #R:decwrl:-110700:uokvax:5800026:000:970 uokvax!lmaher Jun 19 01:15:00 1984 /***** uokvax:net.startrek / uiucdcs!friedman / 3:38 pm Jun 10, 1984 */ perhaps symbolically together. (On the other hand, there must be LOTS of deceased Vulcans; how much storage space could they have on that mountain?) /* ---------- */ A quick calculation shows that you could store 6,000,000,000 corpses in a one-kilometer cube. I've seen estimates that 100 billion people have lived on Earth; Vulcan's population may well be less (harsher conditions), and they probably didn't start the Katra and Corpse storage until after Surak led them into Rationality and Mysticism. Regardless, you can fit nearly 30 billion corpses into a cubic mile, which is surely far less than that Mountain (assuming huge caverns underneath or the like, and ignoring accessways). After the bodies decay, or if they're cremated, they take up much less space, of course. Carl (formerly uok!crigney) ..!ctvax!uokvax!lmaher ..!duke!uok!uokvax!lmaher