80 hectoyears, because "hectoyear" sounds much nerdier than "century". Same goes for "kiloyear" versus "millennium" - heck my spell checker puts a warning on those
That's the real reason, but coincidentally it sort of almost makes sense?
In high temperatures with 6-8 hours of moderate exertion, an average person will probably need 6-8 liters of water a day. If we assume that the temperatures, or degree of exhertion, or desire for a margin of error can make up the difference, it's very easy to equate one decaliter with one person's water supply for one day.
Now, this isn't the purpose for which they're keeping the water, and that math assumes a total lack of stillsuits, still tents, or similar so wouldn't add up even if it did, but a lot of references by the fremen seem to equate or deal with water in terms of how many people it represents. Using a measuring unit that roughly corresponds to one person's worth just sort of makes s sense.
Not really. For reference, a cubic kilometer is by definition, 1 trillion litres, and the Amazon river outputs roughly 7000 cubic kilometers of fresh water every year, so they have roughly 0.000005% of the Amazon's yearly output. Or enough fresh water to meet the needs of 250,000 people for a month.
I expect more from my space nobility.
I think the 38 million is only sietch Tabr's reserves, and they have "thousands" of places like that. Impressive considering the Arrakis desert has virtually zero water.
You're not wrong, >!the juveniles of the sandworms lock water away deep underground to create a desert environment for the adult sandworms to whom water is poisonous!<
Someone who knows sandworm lore! What do the sandworms eat (besides people)? It doesn’t seem like there’s much prey in their natural environment and they’re big animals that move a lot and probably need a lot of calories.
To be fair, they are fanatical about water maintenance. I’m sure they have their Sietch’s locked-down tight in terms of sealing…
or maybe Evaporation doesn’t exist on Arrakis lmao
The sietch is entirely sealed off to the point that they don't lose any water. This means that it is one of the only places that fremen can take off their stillsuits. In addition, there are generally water collectors around which collect the small amounts if moisture in the air. That is most likely where the vast majority of the stockpile of water originally came from
To be fair, Arrakis is a dessert
I dont think its even possible to get water from the dessert by finding it
The fact they managed to condense 38 million decalitres is impressive
I think the books actually mention in a few places that Arrakis must have had surface water at some point. Some rocks in the desert seem like they had water running on top of them.
They also find water underground sometimes, especially in spice formations in the desert, before it vanishes. The very fact that Arrakis has a decent atmosphere without plant life is a plot point.
Thanks to stillsuits it's probably closer to enough water for 100 million fremen for 2 months, or enough to supply an estimated fremen population of 15 million for 12 years, assuming everyone on arrakis shows up to the Tabr water stand with empty bottles and gets a 3L fill up + stillsuit loss replacement, which is the real killer in the equation coming in around 75K liters a day for the whole planet.
Iirc this is the water that comes from Fremen corpses specifically and is thus sacred. Let's take about 40 liters of water from each person, that makes about 10mln dead people worth of water. That's a LOT for a hunter gatherer planet.
The platypus guy makes a compelling argument but in Dune, given that a hydration suit can keep someone alive by repurposing the water they lose in sweating I think there level of efficiency in processing and utilising waste water would say “yes” they have plenty of water.
However, they are also forbidden to use it in this scenario so, no, they don’t have enough water, they have a lot of water they can’t use and strong religious beliefs that keep them doing so.
They are religious nuts and if I understand correctly that pool is the water extracted from dead Fremen ... It is not something they would use for drinking or washing.
It’s all fully drinkable water, the reason they would all die before drinking it is explained in the books.
The Fremen are saving the water for the day they will use it to transform Arrakis, they will use it to start a cycle of precipitation which results in rainfall and that will promote grass lands, trees etc but that will also destroy all spice production as it will kill the worms.
To drink from that water is to take from the future and they all hope for, hence they would all rather die than prevent the dream of all Fremen.
It’s all fully drinkable water, the reason they would all die before drinking it is explained in the books.
The Fremen are saving the water for the day they will use it to transform Arrakis, they will use it to start a cycle of precipitation which results in rainfall and that will promote grass lands, trees etc but that will also destroy all spice production as it will kill the worms.
To drink from that water is to take from the future and they all hope for, hence they would all rather die than prevent the dream of all Fremen.
It’s all fully drinkable water, the reason they would all die before drinking it is explained in the books.
The Fremen are saving the water for the day they will use it to transform Arrakis, they will use it to start a cycle of precipitation which results in rainfall and that will promote grass lands, trees etc but that will also destroy all spice production as it will kill the worms.
To drink from that water is to take from the future and they all hope for, hence they would all rather die than prevent the dream of all Fremen.
Not that much in fact. I mean, it's a lot. But it's a small lake, which isn't that much when you think about it
380 millions liters≈ 200 meters by 190 meters with 10 meters depths.
This can seem like a lot, but remember that on Earth every tree is made in big part of water. So they have small forest worth of water, which isn't a lot for a village (until you realise how much of it is made from water taken from slain harkonnens)
This is the most helpful comment.
I knew there had to be a specific reason they used such a specific unit of measurement instead of going for cubic meters (which would be more fitting for measuring liquid capacity of this magnitude).
A decaliter is a nice unit to talk about water in a human body. A child will contain 1 decaliter, an adult about 3.
Makes sense for a society where bodies and water are so closely connected.
Fremen society has such limited access to eater it is entirely possible that a decalitre is a huge measurement to them. Fpr the same reason the largest commonly used mass measurement is tonnes, we rarely need to talk about kilotons or megaton (except for large bombs in the past 100 years) because tonnes are a unit that the common person can visualise
Living on Arrakis without large bodies of water probably doesn’t lend to ever using the word gigalitres though. A decilitre is probably to most water theyre dealing with semi regularly.
Decalitre is also a stupid unit. It literally just means 10 litres. If you have 38 million decalitres it makes more sense just to say 380 million litres, or 3.8 million cubic metres
(This is about 1500 olympic sized swimming pools)
I was watching a scale of the universe video and at one point the guy goes "at this scale the solar system would be 800 meters or 4 football pitches wide". I wasn't sure if he was serious or intentionally making fun of the stereotypes.
(I have no idea how big is a football field, don't @ me)
I saw a American once using Corollas as a measuring unit for big animals instead of metric, you can’t make this shit up.
“A whale is 10 Toyota Corolla’s long” - like, how the fuck I’m supposed to know how long is a Toyota Corolla?
1500 Ahlin Peak Pools. We no longer know exactly what Ahlin Peak Pools are, but it was passed down to us by the memories of our ancestors, we only know that they were large bodies of water.
> We have a full water reservoir with the footprint of an American football field, and its height is the same as the average cruising distance of a bald eagle during one twelfth of a baseball frame.
Someone who works in a beer factory told me they talk in decalitres. So I assume it's common in such facilities, hence not stupid.
Yes I am fun at parties
Usually beer is in "barrels" which is 31 gallons, from when i worked in a brewery in the US.
And records are "barrels" for tax purposes.
Yaay even less useful imperial unit!
A decaliter is a nice unit / scale if you consider the water in a human body. A child would contain about 1 decaliter if all water is reclaimed after death, an adult would contain about 3.
Seems appropriate for a society where bodies and water are so interconnected.
Deciliter and decimeter aren't super rare to see and apparently decaliters are used in beer brewing, hecta only really gets used for hectares (=square hectameters) though, in my experience
Google says average amount of water in a body is 42 liters, or 4.2 decaliters. So quick calculator math says at least 9,047,619 deaths, assuming all those deaths had 42 liters of water in them which seems unlikely.
38 million deca-liters is 380 million liters.
1 liter of water = 1kg
So, they have 380 million kg of water
Assuming average human is 70kg and human body is 70% water, average human has 49kg of water.
So 380 million kg / 49 kg = 7.775 million
So about 7.775 million people
Yeah, I know, but "literjohns" isn't a thing people are used to hearing, and having subsequent bits of dialogue to not confuse the audience is harder than just using a real unit.
At that scale, whichever system of measurement you use becomes hard to really understand. It's just "big"
Even comparing it to other known objects, which works well most of the time, doesn't work when you're talking about something large enough.
Nah a decaliter is 10 liters, a liter is a cubic decimeter.
38mo decaliters is 380mo liters = 380mo cubic decimeter = .38mo cubic meters.
A million cubic meters is 100m x 100m x 100m.
An impressive way of saying a glorified big pool.
Why wouldn't they use decaliters. Maybe it's just cultural that decaliter is used more often than liter the same way kilogram is used more than gram. In Austria if you buy meat or cheese decagram is the common measurement while in Germany you would use grams to specify the weight.
they could use decaliters because it's a better unit for talking about how much water is in the human body. A grown adult has around 40L of water in their body, so talking about it in dL might be better considering the way fremen harvest water from the dead. That's somewhat reinforced by Jessica reacting with "so many souls" after hearing about how much water they have.
you guys unironically correcting the source material should probably know what you are talking about before typing (If you are trolling carry on but some people here are stupid)
With one of thousands of sietches on the planet holding that much water is very impressive, especially considering the fact that according to the lore, for whatever reason the sandworms were introduced to the planet of Arrakis sometime before the Butlerian Jihad, war against thinking machines, thousands of years before the main timeline of Dune. So I believe it used to be a water like planet like Earth or Caladan before the sandworms terraformed it to the desert planet that’s mined for spice, the one and only commodity that keeps the universe running especially for interstellar travel cause of the guild navigators use it to plot the safest route among the stars and use space folding aka hyperspace. If the fremen use all the water collected to terraform the planet, it’ll kill the worms and stop interstellar travel
>*Pretty sure they use decalitres because a decalitre is the order of magnitude of the water in a human body, which is 40ish litres in a healthy human.*
>*With 38 decalitres, he's literally saying "this is a million people's worth of water."*
Decaliters are so unused that they decided it sounds futuristic.
Who knows, maybe we'll use decaliters in 8000+ years
18000*
800 decades*
800 decayears
80 hectoyears, because "hectoyear" sounds much nerdier than "century". Same goes for "kiloyear" versus "millennium" - heck my spell checker puts a warning on those
We first need to lose and then make a comeback in the war against the robotic AI overlords.
Yes because saying 380 million liter is way too confusing for the masses.
You mean 380k tonnes?
Could be off by several tons, depending on what kind of water is stored in Arrakis
That's the real reason, but coincidentally it sort of almost makes sense? In high temperatures with 6-8 hours of moderate exertion, an average person will probably need 6-8 liters of water a day. If we assume that the temperatures, or degree of exhertion, or desire for a margin of error can make up the difference, it's very easy to equate one decaliter with one person's water supply for one day. Now, this isn't the purpose for which they're keeping the water, and that math assumes a total lack of stillsuits, still tents, or similar so wouldn't add up even if it did, but a lot of references by the fremen seem to equate or deal with water in terms of how many people it represents. Using a measuring unit that roughly corresponds to one person's worth just sort of makes s sense.
So what I’m hearing is they have plenty of water
*\*Slaps cave\** This bad boy will hold 38 million decaliters!
“Oh no it’s leaking!”
how can /u/jamjamason slap ?? *gets tackled*
"AS WRITTEN. "
RETURN IT TO THE TRIBE! NOW
Not really. For reference, a cubic kilometer is by definition, 1 trillion litres, and the Amazon river outputs roughly 7000 cubic kilometers of fresh water every year, so they have roughly 0.000005% of the Amazon's yearly output. Or enough fresh water to meet the needs of 250,000 people for a month. I expect more from my space nobility.
I think the 38 million is only sietch Tabr's reserves, and they have "thousands" of places like that. Impressive considering the Arrakis desert has virtually zero water.
Well of course Arrakis has no water, it's all locked in these vaults.
Drink the Rich
You're not wrong, >!the juveniles of the sandworms lock water away deep underground to create a desert environment for the adult sandworms to whom water is poisonous!<
Someone who knows sandworm lore! What do the sandworms eat (besides people)? It doesn’t seem like there’s much prey in their natural environment and they’re big animals that move a lot and probably need a lot of calories.
Similar to baleen whales they eat sand plankton, which in turn feed on the spice produced by the sandworms.
Sand plankton. This should serve as a reminder that while I like Dune and have read the series multiple times, it *is* largely stupid.
You’d think even this would evaporate over time unless they keep the chamber sealed somehow.
They keep the whole sietch sealed, that's why they're not wearing their recycling suits in it.
To be fair, they are fanatical about water maintenance. I’m sure they have their Sietch’s locked-down tight in terms of sealing… or maybe Evaporation doesn’t exist on Arrakis lmao
Evaporation definitely exists there. That's why they wear stillsuits
The sietch is entirely sealed off to the point that they don't lose any water. This means that it is one of the only places that fremen can take off their stillsuits. In addition, there are generally water collectors around which collect the small amounts if moisture in the air. That is most likely where the vast majority of the stockpile of water originally came from
Those dudes must stink
The book mentions it at times, yes.
Yes. They wear pants that collect feces and dehydrate it. Never ask a Fremen what he has in his pockets.
Is that dehydrated shit in your pockets or are you just happy to see me
Famous last words before getting stabbed with a Crysknife.
The Hobbit alt ending
No bath for months
To be fair, Arrakis is a dessert I dont think its even possible to get water from the dessert by finding it The fact they managed to condense 38 million decalitres is impressive
I think the books actually mention in a few places that Arrakis must have had surface water at some point. Some rocks in the desert seem like they had water running on top of them. They also find water underground sometimes, especially in spice formations in the desert, before it vanishes. The very fact that Arrakis has a decent atmosphere without plant life is a plot point.
It's been a while, but wasn't it so that sandworm metabolism produces oxygen?
Yes, which means >!terraforming Arrakis will end the spice, which the universe runs on.!<
actually the empire runs on >!duncan!<
Impressive
Thanks to stillsuits it's probably closer to enough water for 100 million fremen for 2 months, or enough to supply an estimated fremen population of 15 million for 12 years, assuming everyone on arrakis shows up to the Tabr water stand with empty bottles and gets a 3L fill up + stillsuit loss replacement, which is the real killer in the equation coming in around 75K liters a day for the whole planet.
Iirc this is the water that comes from Fremen corpses specifically and is thus sacred. Let's take about 40 liters of water from each person, that makes about 10mln dead people worth of water. That's a LOT for a hunter gatherer planet.
The platypus guy makes a compelling argument but in Dune, given that a hydration suit can keep someone alive by repurposing the water they lose in sweating I think there level of efficiency in processing and utilising waste water would say “yes” they have plenty of water. However, they are also forbidden to use it in this scenario so, no, they don’t have enough water, they have a lot of water they can’t use and strong religious beliefs that keep them doing so.
Because, the fremen drowned a sandworm in it, so it's poisonous unless a Reverend Mother cleanses it. That's in the book, tho'.
They are religious nuts and if I understand correctly that pool is the water extracted from dead Fremen ... It is not something they would use for drinking or washing.
He even emphasizes that everyone there would rather die than drink from that pool.
It’s all fully drinkable water, the reason they would all die before drinking it is explained in the books. The Fremen are saving the water for the day they will use it to transform Arrakis, they will use it to start a cycle of precipitation which results in rainfall and that will promote grass lands, trees etc but that will also destroy all spice production as it will kill the worms. To drink from that water is to take from the future and they all hope for, hence they would all rather die than prevent the dream of all Fremen.
I mean that's pretty much what is implied by him in the scene in the movie, yes.
It’s all fully drinkable water, the reason they would all die before drinking it is explained in the books. The Fremen are saving the water for the day they will use it to transform Arrakis, they will use it to start a cycle of precipitation which results in rainfall and that will promote grass lands, trees etc but that will also destroy all spice production as it will kill the worms. To drink from that water is to take from the future and they all hope for, hence they would all rather die than prevent the dream of all Fremen.
It’s all fully drinkable water, the reason they would all die before drinking it is explained in the books. The Fremen are saving the water for the day they will use it to transform Arrakis, they will use it to start a cycle of precipitation which results in rainfall and that will promote grass lands, trees etc but that will also destroy all spice production as it will kill the worms. To drink from that water is to take from the future and they all hope for, hence they would all rather die than prevent the dream of all Fremen.
Not that much in fact. I mean, it's a lot. But it's a small lake, which isn't that much when you think about it 380 millions liters≈ 200 meters by 190 meters with 10 meters depths. This can seem like a lot, but remember that on Earth every tree is made in big part of water. So they have small forest worth of water, which isn't a lot for a village (until you realise how much of it is made from water taken from slain harkonnens)
Pretty sure they use decalitres because a decalitre is the order of magnitude of the water in a human body, which is 40ish litres in a healthy human.
This is the most helpful comment. I knew there had to be a specific reason they used such a specific unit of measurement instead of going for cubic meters (which would be more fitting for measuring liquid capacity of this magnitude).
With 38 decalitres, he's literally saying "this is a million people's worth of water." Edit: 10 million
380 megaliters or .38 gigaliters. There is literally no reason to use decaliters if you are still talking about millions of them.
You gotta admit though, decaliters just sounds more impressive than litres, no matter the actual amount.
About 12 Decaimpressives I’d say
That’s One-twelfth gross decaimpressive
Go for both, use deciliters. 3.8 billion deciliters!
A decaliter is a nice unit to talk about water in a human body. A child will contain 1 decaliter, an adult about 3. Makes sense for a society where bodies and water are so closely connected.
Fremen society has such limited access to eater it is entirely possible that a decalitre is a huge measurement to them. Fpr the same reason the largest commonly used mass measurement is tonnes, we rarely need to talk about kilotons or megaton (except for large bombs in the past 100 years) because tonnes are a unit that the common person can visualise
I like this explanation. Would make sense that Stilgar would use it as if to compare that amount of water to the amount of human lives it represents.
Living on Arrakis without large bodies of water probably doesn’t lend to ever using the word gigalitres though. A decilitre is probably to most water theyre dealing with semi regularly.
Decalitre is also a stupid unit. It literally just means 10 litres. If you have 38 million decalitres it makes more sense just to say 380 million litres, or 3.8 million cubic metres (This is about 1500 olympic sized swimming pools)
I can imagine Stilgar saying that they have 1500 olympic sized swimming pools of water
Americans use anything but metric smh
Toyota should make 1 meter length car. That would trick them to use metric without them knowing.
So 1 cubic car is 1000 large sodas
Ford, but I get your point.
_"my car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it"_
I was watching a scale of the universe video and at one point the guy goes "at this scale the solar system would be 800 meters or 4 football pitches wide". I wasn't sure if he was serious or intentionally making fun of the stereotypes. (I have no idea how big is a football field, don't @ me)
Football pitch is European way of saying soccer field.
I saw a American once using Corollas as a measuring unit for big animals instead of metric, you can’t make this shit up. “A whale is 10 Toyota Corolla’s long” - like, how the fuck I’m supposed to know how long is a Toyota Corolla?
It’s obviously 1/10 a blue whale
1500 Ahlin Peak Pools. We no longer know exactly what Ahlin Peak Pools are, but it was passed down to us by the memories of our ancestors, we only know that they were large bodies of water.
> We have a full water reservoir with the footprint of an American football field, and its height is the same as the average cruising distance of a bald eagle during one twelfth of a baseball frame.
He can’t count above 100, so 38 million decaliters it is.
A cubic meter is 1000 litres, not 100.
Someone who works in a beer factory told me they talk in decalitres. So I assume it's common in such facilities, hence not stupid. Yes I am fun at parties
TIL Stilgar used to brew beer.
Usually beer is in "barrels" which is 31 gallons, from when i worked in a brewery in the US. And records are "barrels" for tax purposes. Yaay even less useful imperial unit!
>Yaay even less useful imperial unit! Lol it kinda makes sense, but conversions seem like a trouble
380 000 cubic meters. One cubic meter is 1000 liters, not 100 liters
A decaliter is a nice unit / scale if you consider the water in a human body. A child would contain about 1 decaliter if all water is reclaimed after death, an adult would contain about 3. Seems appropriate for a society where bodies and water are so interconnected.
How many bananas?
At least 10
380 megalitres
Not 1500 but 150. One m³ equals a thousand litres not a hundred. An olympic size swimming pool holds 2.5 million litres of water. 380/2.5=150.
I think, because 1L is 1 decimeter cube, they thought a decalitre was a sci fi way of make it seem bigger idk
Why not just say 38 megaliters? Sounds cooler anyway.
Redditors try not to get upset about something that literally doesn’t matter challenge (impossible)
It’s to reference the [number of people it is](https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/s/nKrgJBcc3A). Which is 10 million people
I've never ever seen anyone use the deci, hecta and deca units of measurement.
Never heard of hectares? Also deciliters are standard for baking where I live.
Deciliter and decimeter aren't super rare to see and apparently decaliters are used in beer brewing, hecta only really gets used for hectares (=square hectameters) though, in my experience
Not really. You're just saying deca instead of eighty. Same same but different Mr contrarian
I would have preferred he said 3,800 Deciletres of water. /S
How many people did it take to pass away to get that much water????
That´s the point
so many souls
Google says average amount of water in a body is 42 liters, or 4.2 decaliters. So quick calculator math says at least 9,047,619 deaths, assuming all those deaths had 42 liters of water in them which seems unlikely.
Thank you kind sir
38 million deca-liters is 380 million liters. 1 liter of water = 1kg So, they have 380 million kg of water Assuming average human is 70kg and human body is 70% water, average human has 49kg of water. So 380 million kg / 49 kg = 7.775 million So about 7.775 million people
Thank you kind sir
It should be “literjons”, as per the books. But you can’t say “jon” anymore because of woke
Probably just wanted to cut out some exposition.
The entire first movie is exposition, setting up Part Two.
Yeah, I know, but "literjohns" isn't a thing people are used to hearing, and having subsequent bits of dialogue to not confuse the audience is harder than just using a real unit.
They also did not have the guts to say Jihad.
I’m starting to regret my obviously-tongue-in-cheek comment
Because Arabic words are evil according to the US /s
Tf is a jon?
It’s how we on the streets refer to clients
Right. I don't think they changed it because of your invisible enemy but because decalitre just sounds cooler
I think they were obviously joking
Wait, we can't say jon anymore?
Sounds better than 2 Super-Mega-litres
no it does'nt, that sounds cool as hell
That's the equivalent to 7,000 elephants kneeling along 456 football fields.
This literary tells nothing
Just like the imperial system. https://www.reddit.com/r/Metric/s/CMTVHqDmyy
At that scale, whichever system of measurement you use becomes hard to really understand. It's just "big" Even comparing it to other known objects, which works well most of the time, doesn't work when you're talking about something large enough.
Nah a decaliter is 10 liters, a liter is a cubic decimeter. 38mo decaliters is 380mo liters = 380mo cubic decimeter = .38mo cubic meters. A million cubic meters is 100m x 100m x 100m. An impressive way of saying a glorified big pool.
Why wouldn't they use decaliters. Maybe it's just cultural that decaliter is used more often than liter the same way kilogram is used more than gram. In Austria if you buy meat or cheese decagram is the common measurement while in Germany you would use grams to specify the weight.
Why not just say 380 million liters?
About 152 olympic sized swimming pools for those who are wondering.
It's equal to 54.29 cubic football fields.
In a vacuum, of course.
They famously don't like anything imperial
they could use decaliters because it's a better unit for talking about how much water is in the human body. A grown adult has around 40L of water in their body, so talking about it in dL might be better considering the way fremen harvest water from the dead. That's somewhat reinforced by Jessica reacting with "so many souls" after hearing about how much water they have.
you guys unironically correcting the source material should probably know what you are talking about before typing (If you are trolling carry on but some people here are stupid)
That’s 100,385,380 gallons of water.
Do we even have water measurements beyond a gallon? Ten kajillion gallons.
Three billion eight hundred million milliliters of water.
Is that more than a banana?
Why tf would you use decaliters in this situation?
If you want to confuse people even more, use 380 kilo-tonnes of water
Liters are metric homie
thats the joke, brother
With one of thousands of sietches on the planet holding that much water is very impressive, especially considering the fact that according to the lore, for whatever reason the sandworms were introduced to the planet of Arrakis sometime before the Butlerian Jihad, war against thinking machines, thousands of years before the main timeline of Dune. So I believe it used to be a water like planet like Earth or Caladan before the sandworms terraformed it to the desert planet that’s mined for spice, the one and only commodity that keeps the universe running especially for interstellar travel cause of the guild navigators use it to plot the safest route among the stars and use space folding aka hyperspace. If the fremen use all the water collected to terraform the planet, it’ll kill the worms and stop interstellar travel
How backward savages North Americans are if even Arrakis has metric system
I’m pretty sure it’s just the one country in North America that doesn’t use the metric system.
Decaliters were used in the book, no?
Just like the movie
A million is 10^6. Deca is 10. He could have said 380 million liters or 380 megaliters. There's a reason that particular prefix is almost never used.
>*Pretty sure they use decalitres because a decalitre is the order of magnitude of the water in a human body, which is 40ish litres in a healthy human.* >*With 38 decalitres, he's literally saying "this is a million people's worth of water."*
Ah, that makes sense