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octo escap'e

Remind me to never anger any of you, or give the impression that I might escape! :shock:

How many cups of sugar it takes to get to the moon?

238,857 (total miles) x 5,280 (feet per mile) = 1,261,164,960 (total feet)

1,261,164,960 (total feet) x 12 (inches per foot) = 25,133,979,760 (total inches)

25,133,979,760 (total inches) / 6 (how many segments of two inches a 'cup' in 12 inches) = 4,188,996,626.66666666666666
 
:feet:

Or...

Take a 'sufficiently large' block of sugar and cut it up into 0.5 mm cubical grains. Each grain will have a volume of 0.125 cubic mm. One cup is equal to 236.588 mL, which is equal to 236,588 cubic mm. Thus, we can fit 1,890,000 grains in a cup. If we take these grains and lie them end-to-end, they will stretch 945 m. The Moon is, on average, about 384,500,000 m from Earth. Therefore, it would take about 407,000 cups of sugar to reach the Moon.

Neil
 
Well, I was taking a solid block of sucrose and cutting it precisely into cubes of a specified size. If we reduce the grain size to 0.1 mm, then it only takes something like 16,250 cups of sugar to reach the Moon. What if we spin the sugar into threads 0.01 mm in thickness? What if we consider just making a single gigantic polysaccharide?

Neil
 
yeah, ive always fancied a *trip* to the moon



em, em, em, em,

errrrrrrrr.. em...
Not all octopuses are so keen to escape :|
 

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