Help this man get to space!!!
- Thread starter Whi7key
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Interesting maths, but we have failed to take into account the weight of the message a prayer sends to heaven.
For instance, light is made of Photons which (at rest) have no mass, you can send a beam of light to space with nothing more than a focused laser beam and some electricity to make the beam in the first place - no external fuel required.
The heaviest payload ever lifted to space was the Apollo 17 moon mission at 143 tonnes, using mankinds most powerful rocket to this point, the Saturn 5 (no longer running) which weighed 2800 tonnes - the craft without fuel or payload weighed 187 tonnes. It takes a bunch of fuel to escape Earth.
So the next question is, how much does one prayer weigh?
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Actually, I've worked out a way to do this...
If 1 like =1 prayer, the amount of energy it takes to make the like is equal to that of the prayer. As we are online, we can make that an electrical value - if we can find out how much electricity it takes to make 1 like (e.g. an average of 5milliamps across all the servers and hard drives and networks) and then work out how much energy is needed to get to the sun we can know how many likes it would take to get a rapper to the sun...
We can actually work this out...
So, how much energy does it take on average for a like to be generated on the forum/facebook etc? And how much energy is needed to get a rocket to the sun?
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My cat came and added this to the equations:
".................................,.m;////////////////////////////////////////////////////////0-"
Thanks cat.
".................................,.m;////////////////////////////////////////////////////////0-"
Thanks cat.
supitza
Vault Dweller
People in the UK say "rubbish", don't they?
I think I heard Jeremy Clarkson say it. And he's British. So he knows what's up.
I don't know, servers can soak up a lot of power and generate a lot of heat. You'd need the bare minimum of DNS servers running to connect all the people generating the likes to the servers hosting Facebook, you'd also need to have all the cell towers and related infrastructure powered for all the people using smartphones to generate likes, and you'd need to count all the computers and devices used to generate likes. I guess you could also count the related government infrastructure that would go along with all this running, things like all the support facilities like fire stations and other emergency and safety services required available to operate things like power plants and so forth. That starts to get into the big tangled web of government bureaucracy so there's probably where you're going to find all the power usage(waste) you need.