"So the ave stump height is cut to 0.45 m. Let's assume an oak, with an ave height of 20m. Thats about 2.3% of overall height.
This tree would therefore be around 11.7km high using that ratio. Almost high enough to tickle the stratosphere at 12km
So if I used the horizon calculator right, you could still see the bastard 387km away
EDIT: Just to answer a few of the many questions. In American that'd be about 7.3miles, or 13,760 washing machines"
"One source says the “minimum actuation force” of a key is 47.6 grams. If we assume the kitten is standing on 4 keys (only one per paw) 4*47.6 is 190.4 grams or 0.4 pounds. Ao the kitten would be under that weight. It appears that the kitten is standing on more than 4 keys though so maybe 1/2 pound."
"They’re called crinkle crankles. A single leaf wall over that distance would need brick piers approx every 1.5-2m if it was a retaining wall it would need to be at least 9” wide (2 bricks). The crinkle crankle has more strength due to it’s curved nature so can be 4” wide or a single leaf of bricks.
For the maths if we can assume they’re true semi-circles then each semi circle would be 1/2piD or 1.57D whereas a double leaf wall would be 2D for the same length D
Therefore using 21.5% less bricks than a double leaf wall"
"The quote is "I'm sexy and I know it"
sqrt(1+tan^2) can be verbalized as "sec" and so this formula is the "sec of c"
"I'm sec C and I know it""
"Quick eyeballing suggests a curvature of about 30°; that's 1/12th of a full circle, so given that the Earth's circumference is just over 40,000 km, the car would have to be about 3333 km long, or about the driving distance from Chicago to Los Angeles, or about 5.5 million washing machines (in case you're too American to understand kilometers)."
"Each ingredient can either be included or not -- that's 2 possibilities. Multiply out all 9 ingredients and we have 29 = 512 in total. I presume you'd want to exclude the 1 possibility where none of the ingredients are included, so that leaves 511."
"Quite the opposite, it will leave you with less sandwich. Since no cut is perfect, some of the sandwich molecules will stay on the knife or there is more crumbs on the cutting board. Therefore, cutting on a diagonal (longest cut) will dislodge more material of the sandwich than cutting along shorter line"
"Assuming those are $100 bill stacks at $10,000 each. I count 12 stacks across and 15 stacks deep and assuming that each stack is ~0.5 inches tall with a total height of ~30 inches.
12 * 15 * (30 / 0.5) * 10,000 = $108 Million dollars."
"$9.33 on the left and $21.51 on the right"
"Beginner: 1 in 102 million
Intermediate: 1 in 6.1 million
Expert: 1 in 477,000"
"The total area of ocean is about 361 million square km, or 3.61 x 1014 square meters.
The highest point of Denmark is about 171m.
The earth is large enough that we can choose to ignore the curvature over a change of radius of 171m (compared to the radius of 6300km it’s less than a rounding error).
What we can’t ignore is that there is about 30 million square km of land that is 171m or less above sea level which will also be flooded (estimating from a hypsographic curve). I’ll factor in a mean of half of that to give the new earths surface figure of 3.76 x 1014 square meters.
This means that there would need to be 171 x 3.76 x 1014 = 6.43 x 1016 cubic meters of water displaced.
If we assume a good throwing rock has a volume of 1 litre, then you would need 6.43 x 1019 rocks.
At 1 rock per day that’s going to be 1.76 x 1017 years, or 12 900 000 times the age of the universe.
If all 8 billion people on the world threw one rock per second, it would only take 250 years"
"36,567,729 sheets of letter sized paper according to Excel (single sided)
According to Google a pallet contains 200,000 sheets
Therefore 182 pallets of paper would be needed.
A photocopier can apparently print 500,000 sheets in its lifetime, so you would need 73 photocopiers"
"According to a google search, it takes about 4,000 newtons to crush a bone, & I’m going to assume that an average person has a frontal surface area of 1 m2 for ease.
A nickel weighs 5 grams, which equates to about 0.05 newtons of gravitational force… you’d need at least 81,578 nickels on top of the person, or about $4,078.90"
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#20 Legibly. Or it would be completely black.