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Subject: Re: More on TREK III (Heavy duty SPOILER - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 02:15:00 EDT
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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?)
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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)
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