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I read this in the Globe today and want to believe it (a victim of if it's in print it's gotta be...), but it seems, well, not possible:
If you were able to fold a piece of paper a quarter of a millimetre thick in half 50 times, it would be so thick it would reach from here to the Sun.
I'm sure the couple of engineers that read this blog occassionally will chime in.
My other thinking on this problem is that you could never reach the sun with the paper as at some point the distance from the sun reached by the paper would be such that the heat would continually ignite the paper creating an incredibly long wick. But wait, would the paper burn in space without O2? Sigh, I've wasted my life not offering it to science... I guess I make up for that with having checked that little box on my donor card on my license.
In other news:
China's leader refused to lend (initially, for several long moments) his pen to Japan's leader at a signing ceremony today. Only at the interjection of Malaysia's leader did the pen request get met. China's still a tad pissed at the Japanese leader's insistence on praying (as he says it's all he's doing) at a shrine which houses remains of unsavory war criminals.
In Hong Kong those zany South Korean farmer protestors jumped into the harbour in repudiation of trade talks going on there. Given that harbour is maybe only a bit cleaner than Hamilton's, perhaps the self dunking is an effort to grow an extra appendage -- which has gotta be handy for weeding crops if you're a farmer.
No film at 11. Pics, yes, but for share only.
If you were able to fold a piece of paper a quarter of a millimetre thick in half 50 times, it would be so thick it would reach from here to the Sun.
I'm sure the couple of engineers that read this blog occassionally will chime in.
My other thinking on this problem is that you could never reach the sun with the paper as at some point the distance from the sun reached by the paper would be such that the heat would continually ignite the paper creating an incredibly long wick. But wait, would the paper burn in space without O2? Sigh, I've wasted my life not offering it to science... I guess I make up for that with having checked that little box on my donor card on my license.
In other news:
China's leader refused to lend (initially, for several long moments) his pen to Japan's leader at a signing ceremony today. Only at the interjection of Malaysia's leader did the pen request get met. China's still a tad pissed at the Japanese leader's insistence on praying (as he says it's all he's doing) at a shrine which houses remains of unsavory war criminals.
In Hong Kong those zany South Korean farmer protestors jumped into the harbour in repudiation of trade talks going on there. Given that harbour is maybe only a bit cleaner than Hamilton's, perhaps the self dunking is an effort to grow an extra appendage -- which has gotta be handy for weeding crops if you're a farmer.
No film at 11. Pics, yes, but for share only.
posted by Heipel at
12:22 PM
4 Comments:
i read about that paper story!!...actually from TV show...anyway it's impossible with human's hands.....or have to be very very patient???...HA..
well the fact is that you can't fold any paper, no matter how thin, more than 8 times. try it.
well apparently, some smart girl proved you can fold more than eight times:
http://www.math.princeton.edu/~wwong/blog/blog200511170411.shtml
with a formula to boot!
well apparently everyone else has jumped all over this one before the engineer can give his two cents. thbbpt!
(joe your link doesn't work!)
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