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If Earth were the size of a football, how small would you be?

Human hair

Width: 70 micrometres (µm)

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Imagine every nanometre represented one pixel's width on your screen:

DNA double helix (width)2 pixels wide
Common cold virus30 pixels wide
Human hair (width)70,000 pixels wide
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If Earth were shrunk to the size of a 22 cm football, which of these objects would be closest in size to a 1.7-metre-tall person?