Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Tramps_mate]

One of U.S. President John Tyler’s grandsons is still living. Tyler (1790-1862) was President from 1841 to 1845.

Another actually died just 10 days a go...

 

[deipnosophist]

If you lay out all the burgers McDonald’s have ever sold (over 100 billion, @ 4 inches per bun) the burgers would go around the world 216 times. You’d still have a few left over so with what’s left if you then stacked those on top of the burgers that went around the world you get to the moon and back

..at sea level I presume? So I suppose Filet-o-Fish should be the standard measuring burger.

Just doing the maths: ((10^11 x 4inches)x 2.54cm/inch)/10^5 cm/km =10,160,000km.
The Earth's circumference is about 40,070 km (equatorially ie at latitude 0 degrees)
10,160,000/40,070km=253

The difference of this and your 216 times (ie 37) equals about 1.48mio km which is 3.7 times more than than the distance of the Earth to the Moon (at its apogee...400,000km).

So: the burgers left over from circling the world 216 times, if stacked on top of one of the burgers that went around the world, would go the moon, back to earth, to the moon again, and then 7/10 of the way back to a McDonald's on Earth... where some hungry American (sans insulin) would consume the lot!!

 

[Jamo Martinez]

If you lay out all the burgers McDonald’s have ever sold (over 100 billion, @ 4 inches per bun) the burgers would go around the world 216 times. You’d still have a few left over so with what’s left if you then stacked those on top of the burgers that went around the world you get to the moon and back

That last bit isn't true. Once you get to about 6, the stack falls over.

Trust me. I've tried it.

 

[degsy]

Billa? ...first name of Billa Clack...singer from Liverpool wasn't she? Didn't she release that seminal 60s album 'Spoonerism'?

Forkoff

 

[bluerobert]

..at sea level I presume? So I suppose Filet-o-Fish should be the standard measuring burger.

Just doing the maths: ((10^11 x 4inches)x 2.54cm/inch)/10^5 cm/km =10,160,000km.
The Earth's circumference is about 40,070 km (equatorially ie at latitude 0 degrees)
10,160,000/40,070km=253

The difference of this and your 216 times (ie 37) equals about 1.48mio km which is 3.7 times more than than the distance of the Earth to the Moon (at its apogee...400,000km).

So: the burgers left over from circling the world 216 times, if stacked on top of one of the burgers that went around the world, would go the moon, back to earth, to the moon again, and then 7/10 of the way back to a McDonald's on Earth... where some hungry American (sans insulin) would consume the lot!!

firstly I wouldn’t use a fillet of fish as the u it if measure as it’s a different steamed bun. Secondly im going to go with NDT’s maths over yours. No offence but he is a trusted Astro physicist

 

[bluerobert]

That last bit isn't true. Once you get to about 6, the stack falls over.

Trust me. I've tried it.

maybe next time you could use chicken selects to anchor the buns down? I also think by the time you’d got to your 2nd billion burgers the first billion might have started to decompose

 

[chrismpw]

That last bit isn't true. Once you get to about 6, the stack falls over.

Trust me. I've tried it.

Thanks.
Now there's hot coffee snorted up my nostrils.

Partly because I could see Fr Dougal doing just this lol

 

[chrismpw]

maybe next time you could use chicken selects to anchor the buns down? I also think by the time you’d got to your 2nd billion burgers the first billion might have started to decompose

Then you have to think of the pressure- we'd be into the realms of metamorphism.


Mmmmmm marble buns.

 

[bluerobert]

Then you have to think of the pressure- we'd be into the realms of metamorphism.


Mmmmmm marble buns.

all that weight would create a neutron star of burgers, so dense not even light could escape its gravity. What a way to go! Imagine all those gherkins, I’d die a happy man

 

[WA Toffee]

Bit concerned that pictures 3 & 4 are next to each other...

Don't worry, it is a freshy, not a salty. Only grow to a couple of metres, so tend to not eat adult humans

 

[Groucho]

The Up in 7-Up was used in reference to the lithium citrate that was present in the drink until 1948 , a mood stabiliser

Do you have any old stock there?

4 inches per bun)

Good luck with that

 

[bluerobert]

Do you have any old stock there?


Good luck with that

Yes mate, I regularly throw ostentatious parties with free flowing old tonics such as Coke and 7-Up (think of that scene in JFK with Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci and Kevin Bacon). I’ve a load of gold paint if you’re interested?

My buns are exactly how natural selection made them. It’s not the size of the bun but the amount of burgers packed into it

 

[deipnosophist]

firstly I wouldn’t use a fillet of fish as the u it if measure as it’s a different steamed bun. Secondly im going to go with NDT’s maths over yours. No offence but he is a trusted Astro physicist

no offence taken mate...we're in an Ale House thread on a footie forum lol

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

not sure if fact or fiction, but the pattern on these doors represent,a cross and an open bible .

 

[Tramps_mate]

..at sea level I presume? So I suppose Filet-o-Fish should be the standard measuring burger.

Just doing the maths: ((10^11 x 4inches)x 2.54cm/inch)/10^5 cm/km =10,160,000km.
The Earth's circumference is about 40,070 km (equatorially ie at latitude 0 degrees)
10,160,000/40,070km=253

The difference of this and your 216 times (ie 37) equals about 1.48mio km which is 3.7 times more than than the distance of the Earth to the Moon (at its apogee...400,000km).

So: the burgers left over from circling the world 216 times, if stacked on top of one of the burgers that went around the world, would go the moon, back to earth, to the moon again, and then 7/10 of the way back to a McDonald's on Earth... where some hungry American (sans insulin) would consume the lot!!

Use the least sold burger like! Try with a big Mac.