Comment by NDlurker
3 hours ago
What would .2 billion tons of viruses look like? Or any large mass of viruses? Goopy? What color what it be? These are probably questions for an LLM
3 hours ago
What would .2 billion tons of viruses look like? Or any large mass of viruses? Goopy? What color what it be? These are probably questions for an LLM
That was actually covered by Randall Munro of XKCD:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/80/
Excellently written, informative, entertaining and a bit scary. Oceans of slime yet viruses are so small. It is mind-blowing to think about.
I’m not sure the color extrapolation to pus is justified.
Haha of course it was! Thanks for the link.
Supposedly, at its peak, all the covid viruses on Earth amounted to about half a teaspoon's worth.