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Good article (I also made the FLIR Image!). Read a while back, just as good as I remember. +1
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this was a long idea, but it ended up being a short article. thanks to a couple people for looking this over - elogee, aismallard, and jackal - who also made the image in the last collapsible, thanks jackal! - come to mind. this isn't a permanent fixture, i'm just keeping the slot warm for a friend.
images:
header: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Everest_North_Face_toward_Base_Camp_Tibet_Luca_Galuzzi_2006.jpg — cc by sa 2.5
last image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest#/media/File:Everest_kalapatthar.jpg — cc by sa 2.5 — edited by JackalRelated
The ending is utterly unbelievable — the average person weighs 60 kilograms and Everest is almost 160 trillion, you'd need like 16 times as many corpses on Everest than there are humans that have existed on Earth — but its Ito-esque nature compensates for that.
At 45% it's more like 108 times the global population.
Edit: just noticed you did "all humans who have ever lived". i am blind.
the only possibility I can think is that due to the amount of times SCP 2000 may have been used to prevent end of the world scenarios the amount of people that have ever lived is much higher than in our world
If you calculate by volume instead of mass, you get 432 billion to 10 trillion depending on the different estimations of where Mount Everest actually starts. Does it start at sea level, at base camp, somewhere in between? How wide is it? If these numbers are actually a lot smaller, we could get a more reasonable amount of bodies, like 10 billion or so. And this is assuming the bodies are tightly packed, they could be including some snow or other rocks inside the body as body mass, despite not being part of the body. Or they aren't as tightly packed as possible. Given all these possibilities, the numbers could be more realistic than a trillion bodies.
Can this affect animals btw? Is it only humans? …Well now I'm not just wondering if that's true, if prehistoric creatures are in there too, but maybe there's at least 1 massive corpse in there.
I'm not sure what to say here :x I guess I didn't find the base idea very interesting, and the ending did nothing for me because all I could think about is how ridiculous it was. -1 from me.
Short, sweet, and loaded with fridge logic. Good stuff, rounder. This was my kinda skip. +1
I guess everybody ends up on Mt. Everest one day.
Amazing way to tie real life threats to our own life currently to a really creepy SCP. Absolutely adored the building tension between the MTF and the Base Camp.
+1'd, incredibly tense and implicitly terrifying.
We all have to climb a mountain someday, though whether we make it back down is another story entirely.
+1, very nice.
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