How Big is a Mole of People? (And More)

How big is a mole of people? A mole is a massive number, but let's put this into perspective! Could we support 1 mole of people? How much of the planet's resources would they all use? What even is a 'mole' anyways? Come find out!
Colony Ship by rmoore0: www.deviantart.com/rmoore0
References:
Wired Mole of Humans: www.wired.com/2013/10/a-mole-...
Habitable Planets: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
How many Stars in Milky Way: www.space.com/25959-how-many-...
How many sunlike stars: astronomy.stackexchange.com/q...
One Breath: www.quora.com/What-is-the-mas...
Atmosphere of Earth: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosph...
Earth Overshoot Day: www.overshootday.org/
Biocapacity Data: data.footprintnetwork.org
Global Hectares: www.footprintnetwork.org/faq/
Info on Earth Overshoot Day: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_O...
Expansion of Sahara Desert: journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1...

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