Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Rice

How many grains of rice would you have to stack to get to the moon?

8 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

approxmiatley 384400000000
give or take a couple trillion

11:18 AM  
Blogger sean makau said...

2 up from trillion, not sure what that is called.
that still probably wont be enough.
there is not enough rice on the planet probably

11:18 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well uh...I'm not going to stack my rice from the floor...I'll start stacking them from the center of mass of the Earth to the center of mass of the Moon...with that said:

Earth to Moon Distance = 3.6x10^6km = 3.6x10^12mm

Average Length of Rice = 6mm
Average Width of Rice = 2mm

SOOOO

(3.6x10^12mm)x(1rice/6mm) =

6x10^11 grains of rice length wise

AND

(3.6x10^12mm)x(1rice/2mm) =

1.8x10^12mm grains of rice width wise


I think....

3:07 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you cant stack rice to the moon...thats impossible...this question is weak

5:51 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Assuming his math is correct I'll just agree with Francisco.

8:30 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I 2nd on Francisco's answer.
I was gonna do the math, but thanks!

8:55 PM  
Blogger Alex said...

About as many as there are bits of asian porn on Eddy's computer.

12:00 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

1 really big rice!

7:59 PM  

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