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[Themanofbat]

That's about 374 million Happy Meals.

Well... that explains a lot.

 

[Not Jake]

so basically just get all the fat american comic book fans to give up lunch for one day

 

[DBM]

Well... that explains a lot.

That's enough Happy Meal boxes to build a wall 120 stories tall around the entire circumference of the Earth.

 

[Not Jake]

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.

 

[Themanofbat]

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.

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.

 

[Themanofbat]

Cheeseburgers, anyone?

 

[Not Jake]

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.

yeah but the Happy Meal boxes would get wider as they buckled under the weight of layers and layers of boxes

 

[DBM]

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.

That is an excellent point that I didn't consider. That would significantly change things.

And to Jake, it is BS. I was way off now that I look at it. I used miles instead of feet at one point.

It should have been that it is enough Happy meal boxes to wrap around the earth 1.5 times.

 

[iloveclones]

I was way off now that I look at it. I used miles instead of feet at one point.

You didn't happen to be working for NASA a few years ago, did you?

 

[Themanofbat]

You didn't happen to be working for NASA a few years ago, did you?

 

[Darthphere]

I hate all of you, im hungry and havent bought a happy meal in years. Ill be right back.

 

[iloveclones]

$125 million of American Taxpayer money well spent!

 

[Themanofbat]

That is an excellent point that I didn't consider. That would significantly change things.

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.

Don't worry... I got your back.

 

[DBM]

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.

Don't worry... I got your back.

Thanks.

I'm in management so my field is people and financial stuff, not engineering and building.

 

[iloveclones]

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]

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.

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.

 

[Themanofbat]

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.

Being the President of my own company, I can surf SHHype ALL day.

But then I'll screw up my deadlines...