How Many Tribbles Will Fit Into Your House?

By Nancy Atkinson - May 16, 2013 at 9:36 PM UTC | Site News
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Star Trek: How Many Tribbles Will Fit in Your House?

Oh, those little creatures that are no Tribble at all. If you're not familiar with these small, non-intelligent lifeforms known for their prodigious reproductive rate,

Tribbles (Polygeminus grex)

are part of Star Trek lore. And we've all got Star Trek on the brain with the opening of the latest movie,

Star Trek: Into Darkness (see our review here

). So just for fun, here's something that

Nilz Baris

would have loved to have access to. Provided by the folks at

Movoto,

this handy calculator will will tell you a.) not only how many Tribbles will fit into your home, but also, b.) how long it will take them to be fruitful and multiply to fill your home.

And for more fun here's some estimates of how many Tribbles will fit into various landmarks, both real and imagined:

Empire State Building

Tribbles: 71,153,846 Time: 96 hours

White House

Tribbles: 1,375,000 Time: 72 Hours

Burj Khalifa

Tribbles: 96,342,614 ime: 96 hours

Painted Lady

Tribbles: 57,692 Time: 60

Wayne Manor

Tribbles: 980,769 Time: 72 hours

Millennium Falcon

Tribbles: 1,173,493 Time: 72 hours

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com