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fantailedalbi
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Guys and gals
A teaser for you. Take a chess board and place a grain of rice on the first square. Put two grains on the second square, four on the 3rd, eight on the 4th and so on.
It sounds simple enough but you won’t be able to finish the chess board – there isn’t enough rice on the planet to do that! You don't believe me?
Some facts:
By the time you get to the 64th square you’ll be looking for about 18,440,000,000,000,000,000 grains of rice for that square.
Taking an average chess board square size and neatly stacking up the grains, that column will be 48,500,000,000,000 km high. That’s 41 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto.
It would take light over 9 days to travel from one end to the other.
The weight would be 461,000,000,000 tons.
It would take over 650 years to produce enough rice based on 2005 world production. To complete the board would take twice as long.
Yes it's a sign of a delinquent mind to have worked out that lot but that's what I did.
Any more useless facts welcome here - post what you want.
cheers
Albi
A teaser for you. Take a chess board and place a grain of rice on the first square. Put two grains on the second square, four on the 3rd, eight on the 4th and so on.
It sounds simple enough but you won’t be able to finish the chess board – there isn’t enough rice on the planet to do that! You don't believe me?
Some facts:
By the time you get to the 64th square you’ll be looking for about 18,440,000,000,000,000,000 grains of rice for that square.
Taking an average chess board square size and neatly stacking up the grains, that column will be 48,500,000,000,000 km high. That’s 41 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto.
It would take light over 9 days to travel from one end to the other.
The weight would be 461,000,000,000 tons.
It would take over 650 years to produce enough rice based on 2005 world production. To complete the board would take twice as long.
Yes it's a sign of a delinquent mind to have worked out that lot but that's what I did.
Any more useless facts welcome here - post what you want.
cheers
Albi
ramblin'man
Q: On the surface of the earth, what is the point that is farthest from the center of the earth?
It is NOT Mt. Everest (or, Sagarmatha/Chomolungma as it should be called)(damned British).
Because the earth is not a true sphere, and bulges out around the equator like my pants bulge out when I look at Angelfuns, the point that is farthest from the center of the earth is ...
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... wait for it ...
Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador. At 6267 meters high (20560 feet), it is lower than much of the Himalayas. However, it is only one degree south of the Equator.
How far is it from the center of the earth? From the summit, its 6384.42 Km (3998 miles) to the center of the earth, over 2 Km farther than from the top of Sagarmatha.
Huascarán, a beautiful peak in the white mountains (Cordillera Blanca) of northern Peru, is very very close to Chimborazo for this distinction, being only a couple meters closer to the center of the earth.
RM
It is NOT Mt. Everest (or, Sagarmatha/Chomolungma as it should be called)(damned British).
Because the earth is not a true sphere, and bulges out around the equator like my pants bulge out when I look at Angelfuns, the point that is farthest from the center of the earth is ...
... drum roll ...
... wait for it ...
Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador. At 6267 meters high (20560 feet), it is lower than much of the Himalayas. However, it is only one degree south of the Equator.
How far is it from the center of the earth? From the summit, its 6384.42 Km (3998 miles) to the center of the earth, over 2 Km farther than from the top of Sagarmatha.
Huascarán, a beautiful peak in the white mountains (Cordillera Blanca) of northern Peru, is very very close to Chimborazo for this distinction, being only a couple meters closer to the center of the earth.
RM