Making Anya proud by DTuck

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Making Anya proud

POSTED BY: DTUCK
UPDATED: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:03
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Saturday, December 12, 2009 3:01 PM

This is kind of silly, but, I've been playing around with Wolfram Alpha, a computational engine, and remembered something to look up...

Somebody a few weeks ago posted the results to the nutritional value of a cubic lightyear of butter. Got me thinking...

What is the volume of the observable universe?

Turns out it's 4*10^32 light-years cubed.

What if you wanted a universe with... nothing but shrimp?

Well, I took the volume of the universe, and filled it with shrimp. Turns out it would weigh 1.814*10^83 kilograms.

But... just how many shrimp is that, one may ask?

Taking an average weight of 55 grams per shrimp, we get 3.299*10^84 or 3,299,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 shrimp!

How many is that of the jumbo variety, though...? Heck if I know... go play with Wolfram Alpha yourself!

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 3:57 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Okay, I have to ask - how much volume would that be, in bunnies? :)

Mike

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- Oscar Wilde

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 5:49 PM

CYBERSNARK

And the fact that these calculations come from a system with "Wolfram" in the name just makes it even more apropos. . .

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:35 PM

DTUCK

Quote:
Originally posted by Cybersnark:
And the fact that these calculations come from a system with "Wolfram" in the name just makes it even more apropos. . .

I know, it's wonderful, ain't it?