Themanofbat
Never Mind the Buttocks...
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Themanofbat said:Well... that explains a lot.
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Not Jake said:okay I am going to call BS on that, I refuse to believe you went to McDonalds, measured a Happy Meal box's dimensions, looked up the circumference of the earth, etc, etc. Plus, is each Happy Meal a story? Or are you relating Happy Meals to a story of a building. And do you count the M handles of a Happy Meal into the box's total height? Plus, I would probably eat large parts of that wall down. Did you factor that into your little show-off mathematics, DBM? No you did not.
yeah but the Happy Meal boxes would get wider as they buckled under the weight of layers and layers of boxesThemanofbat said:I wouldn't question his dimensions of stacked Happy Meal boxes side by side going around the spherical circumferance of the Earth (as the real terrain is unmeasurable), but I wonder if he took into account the increase of the circumferance as the Happy Meal boxes get stacked on top of one another, thus increasing the radius (120 stories would equate roughly 1200 feet) as they get stacked thus increasing the number of boxes required to cover the Earth with each and every new radial increase.
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Themanofbat said:I wouldn't question his dimensions of stacked Happy Meal boxes side by side going around the spherical circumferance of the Earth (as the real terrain is unmeasurable), but I wonder if he took into account the increase of the circumferance as the Happy Meal boxes get stacked on top of one another, thus increasing the radius (120 stories would equate roughly 1200 feet) as they get stacked thus increasing the number of boxes required to cover the Earth with each and every new radial increase.
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DBM said:I was way off now that I look at it. I used miles instead of feet at one point.
iloveclones said:You didn't happen to be working for NASA a few years ago, did you?
DBM said:That is an excellent point that I didn't consider. That would significantly change things.
Themanofbat said:No problem.
The main criteria of my job is to check other people's work.
I work with Structural Steel and I check other people's shop drawings to make sure they work in the field and meet the project's specifications. So when Jake made a point of your work being BS (while I didn't actually check your numbers), the logical part that stood out in front of me was the radial increase causing a longer circumferance.
And you'd have to specify that it would take place at the equator, because you're circumferance length would diminish as you start going North or South.
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iloveclones said:Just in case anyone is interested: my field is looking over my shoulder and switching to a spreadsheet that looks like it has meaningful lab data on it. It doesn't pay a lot, but I can watch interesting conversations like this unfold all day long.
DBM said:Considering I'm the head of my department, nobody's going to say anything even if I spend the whole day on SHH. Unless the VP above me randomly decides to travel three states over for a surprise visit.