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Re: Santa (Physics, you gotta love it! : ) )
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Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:49:54 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:
This is an oldie but a goodie (not as good as "is hell endo or exothermic"
but a goodie).
It has one major flaw though...
This assumption:
> Assuming that each of these 91.8 million houses are distributed evenly
> (which we know to be false but for the sake of these calculations we will
> accept), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household, a total trip
> of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops.
Given population clustering the mean interhouse distance is far far less.
And one minor one:
A medium LEGO set does not weigh 2 pounds. That's a pretty big one,
actually... 600 pieces or so.
++Lar
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| To All, I thought this was amusing, even though it has LEGO mentioned in it, I don't know if it needs to be here or in .geek or something. Subject: NASA's Notes Concerning Santa IS THERE A SANTA? In the late 1800s a little girl named Virginia asked (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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