I read that an adult human body has 60,000 miles of blood vessels inside their body. How is that even possible?

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I cant make sense of it in my head.

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The blood vessels branch out into a smaller ones and penetrate almost all flesh. Within a millimeter or two there is a microscopic blood vessel everywhere. If you could separate them and string them together, the chain would be quite long. But I can’t say how many miles. Think how a net is made from a thread or rope. It’s a dense maze, that takes a big spool of thread to weave. A body is 3 dimensional, so it would be equivalent to multiple nets stacked.