[Request] Will these tanks fill at the same rate? Or will the shorter fatter tank fill and overflow first?
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[Request] how long would I take for chickens to take over the world
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[Request] How many crabs would you need to pick up and move the Black Pearl?
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Request Approximately how many hairs does a cat have on their body?
Sometimes I look at my cat's fur and wonder how many hairs she actually has on her body. My girlfriend thinks that it is about a million but i think that it is more like in the tens to hundreds of millions. The more I think about it the less confident I am even about the order of magnitude it might be. Is it possible the number is in the billion? I would genuinely love to see a good attempt at a ballpark estimate.
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Sometimes I look at my cat's fur and wonder how many hairs she actually has on her body. My girlfriend thinks that it is about a million but i think that it is more like in the tens to hundreds of millions. The more I think about it the less confident I am even about the order of magnitude it might be. Is it possible the number is in the billion? I would genuinely love to see a good attempt at a ballpark estimate.
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Request How many cars are on the I-10 freeway at the same time?
During a recent road trip, a youngster in the back seat asked this question about the specific State Route we were on. That road was only about 15 miles long, went through no cities, and was not heavily traveled, so I posited that there were likely around 100-150 cars on it at the same time we were.
Said youngster then asked about “that road that goes from California to Florida” and I brainlocked. Unlike the little road we were on, that one goes through multiple major cities and routinely has heavier traffic in them.
Let’s say we are talking about 10am Pacific time on a non-holiday Wednesday in January. So it’s 10am in LA, 11am in Phoenix, Tucson, and El Paso, Noon in San Antonio, Houston, and New Orleans, and 1pm in Tallahassee and Jacksonville. Ignore the spurs and loops (410, 610, etc) so just the main line from California to Florida. And let’s say vehicles rather than cars so everything counts as 1 whether it’s a Corolla or a bus or an 18-wheeler.
I told the youngster that I guessed “at least 100,000 cars” but that I knew some folks on the internet who were smarter than me at figuring out stuff like this. And here I am. :)
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During a recent road trip, a youngster in the back seat asked this question about the specific State Route we were on. That road was only about 15 miles long, went through no cities, and was not heavily traveled, so I posited that there were likely around 100-150 cars on it at the same time we were.
Said youngster then asked about “that road that goes from California to Florida” and I brainlocked. Unlike the little road we were on, that one goes through multiple major cities and routinely has heavier traffic in them.
Let’s say we are talking about 10am Pacific time on a non-holiday Wednesday in January. So it’s 10am in LA, 11am in Phoenix, Tucson, and El Paso, Noon in San Antonio, Houston, and New Orleans, and 1pm in Tallahassee and Jacksonville. Ignore the spurs and loops (410, 610, etc) so just the main line from California to Florida. And let’s say vehicles rather than cars so everything counts as 1 whether it’s a Corolla or a bus or an 18-wheeler.
I told the youngster that I guessed “at least 100,000 cars” but that I knew some folks on the internet who were smarter than me at figuring out stuff like this. And here I am. :)
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[Request] If an additional 40 out of 1,000 is a 3x increase in successfully quitting, then what is the overall success rate?
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The first round of the world snooker masters tournament just concluded with all eight matches finishing with the exact same score of 6-2. Despite the endless variables, what were rough odds be of this happening? Request
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Request What is the absolute farthest Jim can get away from Doreen on earth's surface?
I guess another way of looking at this is, what is the exact halfway point (miles/kilometers) you can physically be away from someone before taking one more step where, technically, you just got closer to them if you circled the earth? I'll even accept, if possible, Doreen is standing on land and Jim is at the halfway point on the surface but over water, and diving to the depths could potentially get Jim further away from Doreen?
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Based on some responses, I said "surface" of earth so people couldn't just say get on a rocket and go. I'm looking for the absolutely farthest you can get, so Doreen is stationary somewhere. Where does Jim need to go to get the farthest away from her? Dorreen may be at the bottom of the ocean and Jim on top of the highest mountain, but that may only be a 30 some miles apart. So what is the farthest distance while still being on earth?
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I guess another way of looking at this is, what is the exact halfway point (miles/kilometers) you can physically be away from someone before taking one more step where, technically, you just got closer to them if you circled the earth? I'll even accept, if possible, Doreen is standing on land and Jim is at the halfway point on the surface but over water, and diving to the depths could potentially get Jim further away from Doreen?
**UPDATE**
Based on some responses, I said "surface" of earth so people couldn't just say get on a rocket and go. I'm looking for the absolutely farthest you can get, so Doreen is stationary somewhere. Where does Jim need to go to get the farthest away from her? Dorreen may be at the bottom of the ocean and Jim on top of the highest mountain, but that may only be a 30 some miles apart. So what is the farthest distance while still being on earth?
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[Request] How much would it cost to modify from stock, the Prius shown in this video?
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[Request] What would happen if you were to open that zip file on your computer?
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[Request] how much money would you save over a year if you filled a normal petrol/deisel car up $20 at a time instead of filling the tank up completely every time?
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Request How fast would a comb have to be moving to untangle one foot of matted hair on its own?
I’ve been growing my hair out so I’ve had to start combing it out to prevent it from getting too matted. As I was doing it a few minutes ago, I thought about a free-falling comb landing perfectly in my hair to untangle it for me. I then thought about how a comb’s terminal velocity is probably not enough to fully untangle my hair, so I then thought about firing it as a projectile to achieve the same task. I don’t know how long my hair is so I figured I’d just say a foot to make it easier to work with.
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I’ve been growing my hair out so I’ve had to start combing it out to prevent it from getting too matted. As I was doing it a few minutes ago, I thought about a free-falling comb landing perfectly in my hair to untangle it for me. I then thought about how a comb’s terminal velocity is probably not enough to fully untangle my hair, so I then thought about firing it as a projectile to achieve the same task. I don’t know how long my hair is so I figured I’d just say a foot to make it easier to work with.
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