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ldayley
on June 5, 2015
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How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month
"a Trillion Calories" -- what a fantastic way to represent what they do in a way that sounds HUGE but is also both true and not hyperbolic sounding.
gtk40
on June 5, 2015
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That is a lot no matter how you look at it though. If you assume someone eats 2,000 calories a day and 60,000 calories a month of only this one product, that would still be providing a month worth of food for 15 billion people.
criley2
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I think a person eats 2,000 kilocalories a day and 2,000,000 calories per day.
When one person eats 2M calories a day, selling trillions of calories is suddenly not so hard!
gtk40
on June 6, 2015
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Ah, perhaps you're right. I assumed by the uppercase 'C' it was kilocalories, but maybe it was just how it was formatted.
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