Hannah Moore
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384 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2014
last heard May 2015
Hannah Moore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Detectives say they'll keep an open mind and they've met Professor Jackson this week to discuss his findings, although he's since admitted to me there's insufficient evidence to draw conclusions and he won't be doing any more interviews on this.
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And the police say there's no evidence at the moment to suggest they should reopen these cases.
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One group of animals has truly colonized the Earth.
They number more than 100 trillion.
The ant.
And you know, for every human on our planet, there were more than 14,000 of these.
And if we were to weigh all of the ants in the world, they would weigh as much as all of the people.
All the same, Adam insists we fact-check.
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So I emailed Edward Wilson to ask how he calculated it, and he wrote...
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In case you're confused, Professor Wilson is rounding here.
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So 7.2 billion humans becomes roughly 10 billion humans for the purposes of this estimate.
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That's the first problem.
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I've spoken to lots of ant spurts this week, from Bristol University's Ant Lab, the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society, the Natural History Museum... You've left no stone unturned.
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Well, that's the problem.
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There are too many stones to turn over.
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No one knows how many ants there are in the world.
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62 kilograms.
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Let's call it 60 kilograms.
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Divide that by a million and you get 60 milligrams.
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Well, I've been looking into this and I found out that ants vary greatly in weight.
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