It is estimated that 5 x 1030 bacteria live on Earth.
Scaling by square area, the City of Somerville is 4.2mi2, while the area of the Earth is 510,072,000km2.
By my calculations, there are an estimated 106,631,515,374,300,098,809,579 bacteria in the City of Somerville; a number so large that all other flora and fauna are insignificant.
and to put that number in perspective, scientists once estimated that there are 7,500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. Or, there are over 14,000 times the number of bacteria living in Somerville than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.
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You're forgetting a major part of the population
Date: 2009-11-04 07:38 pm (UTC)Scaling by square area, the City of Somerville is 4.2mi2, while the area of the Earth is 510,072,000km2.
By my calculations, there are an estimated 106,631,515,374,300,098,809,579 bacteria in the City of Somerville; a number so large that all other flora and fauna are insignificant.
and to put that number in perspective, scientists once estimated that there are 7,500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. Or, there are over 14,000 times the number of bacteria living in Somerville than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.