I noticed the inspirational saying shown below as I was passing a local church last month and while I realize it was not meant to be taken literally, I am known as "Mister Literal", so I had to see how far from the actual truth this saying really is. I started by looking to see if a drop is an actual measure and while many definitions exist, pharmacists set a drop at 0.05 milliliters. So using that measure...
- A drop is .05 milliliter
- 20 drops is a milliliter
- 20,000 drops is a liter
- There are about 8 billion people on Earth
- 8 billion people divided by 20,000 drops is 400,000 liters
An Olympic-sized pool holds 2,500,000 liters or 6.2 times the 400,000 liters above. A lot of water, perhaps, but not exactly an ocean.
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