Fill the Grand Canyon with what?
Fill the Grand Canyon with what?
One, as long as you also have a whole lot of dirt.
Thank you for providing a serious answer. Have 10^16 bananas existed over the time that bananas have been around?
fpole wrote:
Roughly 2.085 x 10^16 based on an assumed GC volume of 4.17 x 10^12 cubic meters and an assumed banana volume of 200 cm^3. Naturally the true number would be smaller due to air spaces between the bananas. So maybe closer to 1.5 x 10^16.
fanoffpole wrote:
Thank you for providing a serious answer. Have 10^16 bananas existed over the time that bananas have been around?
fpole wrote:Roughly 2.085 x 10^16 based on an assumed GC volume of 4.17 x 10^12 cubic meters and an assumed banana volume of 200 cm^3. Naturally the true number would be smaller due to air spaces between the bananas. So maybe closer to 1.5 x 10^16.
Depends what you call a banana. The bananas we eat were cultivated recently and look a lot different from wild bananas. No way there have been 10^16 of those. If you went back and counted any banana-like fruit over millions of years maybe.
The load on the bottom bananas would crush and liquify them causing the entire pile to flow south like a glacier. Some would claim the banana glacier melt would be due to global warming and would present computer models that didn't match observations in the least as proof, but us runners would know better.
dR Trollingwood wrote:
The load on the bottom bananas would crush and liquify them causing the entire pile to flow south like a glacier. Some would claim the banana glacier melt would be due to global warming and would present computer models that didn't match observations in the least as proof, but us runners would know better.
Good point. Fpole, did you take into account how much the density of a banana would change under 1 megapascal of pressure?
Every time I begin to lose faith in these boards, a thread like this appears.
Pure gold.
Answer to the OP's question: All of them.
Volume of Grand Canyon
Cubic Yards
5.45 trillion
Cubic Meters
4.17 trillion
How much vanilla ice cream, cool whip, Maraschino cherries, and sprinkles would it take to turn that into something useful?
Recognizer of a Moron wrote:
fag alert wrote:A more interesting question would be how many bananas it would take to fill your ass.
Thanks for your contribution.
Stewie: "Well in that scenario it sounds like I'd rather be the parking space than the car."
Brian: "Yeah, that's what I've always guessed."
Okay, I know this post is extremely old, but it made me do some thinking and some math. This has led me to the conclusion that in order to fill the GC you would need ~26 Quadrillion bananas, which is a lot if I do say so myself. But, in order to grow those bananas in 1 year, assuming that you can plant 1000 banana plants per acre and they are producing at the optimal rate of 240 bananas per plant, you would need ~111 billion acres of land. But, there's only 36 billion acres of land on Earth, which is a slight problem. Another minor logistical problem is that in order to buy said land you would need ~351 trillion USD, based on US average acreage cost, when there's about 80 trillion total USD if you include all money converted to USD.
Just thought I'd put in my 2 cents.
ummm .... The 10M?
Dramthun wrote:
Okay, I know this post is extremely old, but it made me do some thinking and some math. This has led me to the conclusion that in order to fill the GC you would need ~26 Quadrillion bananas, which is a lot if I do say so myself. But, in order to grow those bananas in 1 year, assuming that you can plant 1000 banana plants per acre and they are producing at the optimal rate of 240 bananas per plant, you would need ~111 billion acres of land. But, there's only 36 billion acres of land on Earth, which is a slight problem. Another minor logistical problem is that in order to buy said land you would need ~351 trillion USD, based on US average acreage cost, when there's about 80 trillion total USD if you include all money converted to USD.
Just thought I'd put in my 2 cents.
Well, the logical solution to this problem is to build garden domes on the moon dedicated solely to banana production.
newbies spend a few minutes reveling in the finest banana-themed thread ever. On LRC.
From just before the last time the world blew up.
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=2506343&page=1
The question was already settled as a stacking problem. How do you stack bananas the least efficiently so they take up the most space? Not pyramidally, that's for sure. Stack them end to end I say.
A LOT. Probably a lot more than the worlds year production.
This thread is gold
Wow that's scary when you realize the us debt is 25 trillion.. I had no idea only 80 trillion existed
Dramthun wrote:
Okay, I know this post is extremely old, but it made me do some thinking and some math. This has led me to the conclusion that in order to fill the GC you would need ~26 Quadrillion bananas, which is a lot if I do say so myself. But, in order to grow those bananas in 1 year, assuming that you can plant 1000 banana plants per acre and they are producing at the optimal rate of 240 bananas per plant, you would need ~111 billion acres of land. But, there's only 36 billion acres of land on Earth, which is a slight problem. Another minor logistical problem is that in order to buy said land you would need ~351 trillion USD, based on US average acreage cost, when there's about 80 trillion total USD if you include all money converted to USD.
Just thought I'd put in my 2 cents.
It took you six years to do the math but it was well worth it.