RolfAndreassen comments on Rationality quotes: March 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 02 March 2010 06:37:51PM 0 points [-]

The non-cracking of the Earth demonstrates only that the tidal force is small relative to that required to crack the Earth apart, which may not be a particularly strong upper bound on human scales. :) However, RobinZ's numbers show that it's also small relative to human weights, so there we go.