“Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that the Heavenly Host and other essential services take up at least two-thirds of this space, this leaves about one million cubic feet of space for each human occupant-- assuming that every creature that could be called ‘human’ is allowed in, and that the human race eventually totals a thousand times the numbers of humans alive up until now. This is such a generous amount of space that it suggests that room has also been provided for some alien races or--a happy thought--that pets are allowed.” --Terry Pratchett, from his novel, *The Last Hero*
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:33:41 +0000
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