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> Enough rock fell off a Himalayan peak to bury Paris to the height of the Eiffel Tower

> The falling mountain top would have displaced up to 27 cubic kilometres of rock—roughly enough to bury the entirety of Manhattan to about the height of the Empire State Building.

It's paywalled then on but I assume it's also enough rock to bury Dubai to the height of Burj Khalifa.

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> It's paywalled then on but I assume it's also enough rock to bury Dubai to the height of Burj Khalifa.

Haha lol. These comparisons are always strange when I read them or see them in documentaries. "That's enough X to stretch all the way to the moon and back!"

In other words it's a lot. "No you don't understand! It's not just a lot! It's enough that if unraveled it could stretch around the Earth 10 times!!!"

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