Eine Minute Der Menschheit
by:
Stanisław Lem (author)
ISBN:
9783518374559 (3518374559)
Publisher: Suhrkamp
Edition language: Deutsch
“Every minute, 34.2 million men and women copulate. Only 5.7 percent of all intercourse results in fertilization, but the combined ejaculate, at a volume of forty-five thousand litters a minute, contains 1,990 billion (with deviations in the last decimal place) living spermatozoa. The same number of...
This volume had 3 essays, each with an interesting concept.One Human Minute: Lem has styled this piece as a book review...of a book that hasn't been written. One Human Minute is apparently a Guinness Book of World Records that is completely mundane, yet also amped up on steroids. Imagine a book ...