wheresthetorch
Dreaming of Celeste
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My arms are too short.
Thought for the day
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My arms are too short.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
Here is the maths.
Folding the paper in half a third time will get you about the thickness of a nail.
10 folds and the paper will be about the width of a hand.
23 folds will get you to one kilometre.
30 folds will get you to space. Your paper will be now 100km high.
Keep folding it. 42 folds will get you to the Moon.
Now fast forward to 81 folds and your paper will be 127,786 light-years, almost as thick as the Andromeda Galaxy.
And finally, at 103 folds, you will get outside of the observable Universe, which is estimated at 93 billion light-years in diameters."
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
A handy video for you. These are $100 bills. Imagine if they were $1 bills.Really Big Numbers
The USA often features in the top 20 of lists containing the richest countries in the world.
At the end of 2018 the USA national debt stood at a shade under 22 trillion dollars.
We bandy numbers around containing the words billion and trillion on a regular basis, but have you ever stopped to consider how big they actually are?
As an example, if I piled one trillion £1 coins on a football pitch, and you could pick one up every second, without ever taking a break - how long do you think it would take to pick them all up.
A year?
10 years?
1000 years?
Not even close. If you could live long enough and never take a rest it would take you...
Wait for it...
32,000 years!
And that’s just one trillion. And that’s the small trillion with only 12 zeros.
One of the richest countries in the world? My arse!
And for those of you wondering where you’ve heard something similar before, it was the book ‘A Walk in the Woods’ by Bill Bryson. Although I think the USA national debt was only about 6-7 trillion when he wrote the book.
View: https://youtu.be/XqUwr-Nkq9g
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Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
If you do it for a month, makes sure you pick the right one.
28 day February works out at £1,342,000. That’s £9.5 million less than 31 day January which is £10,737,000
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Here is the maths to calculate the number of light years thick it would be assuming paper is 0.125mm thick. 134 billion light years, QED.
winjim
Smash the cistern
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
How do you think this universe was created? Have you not heard of the great big origami fold, from the initial moments when it was one big sheet of paper.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
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- Kingston upon the River Hull
classic33
Leg End Member
Not a "Big Bang" more of a "Snap Bang" you mean?
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
A worm hole is in fact where someone has stuck their pencil through the paper aka fabric of space time.
LeetleGreyCells
Un rouleur infatigable
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- Whitehaven Mansions
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Tenacious Sloth
Guru
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- Huntingdon, UK
cisamcgu
Legendary Member
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- Merseyside-ish
If we are talking Really Big Numbers - here is a beauty :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number
it ends in 7, by the way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number
it ends in 7, by the way
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Driving at 60km/h for ten hours and you will cover 600km. Never been proven by experiment but you know it yo be true. The maths is not a theory it is fact. The theory would be whether physics would allow it.
Yellow Saddle
Guru
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- Loch side.
No, not on paper, with paper.
