{"id":1001,"date":"2008-05-15T22:32:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T03:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2008-05-15T22:32:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T03:32:17","slug":"fun-math-with-a-space-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Fun math with a Space Elevator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"136\" src=\"\/media\/BolognaSlices.jpg\"  height=\"159\" style=\"width: 136px; height: 159px\" \/>I ran across an interesting <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rough-equivalents.com\/2008\/05\/its-the-great-space-coaster-ummm-elevator\/\">blog post today\u00a0at Rough Equivalents<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0author\u00a0has calculated the weight and quantity needed for a substitute Elevator cable made out of bologna slices.\u00a0 It\u00a0would weigh approximately 61,589,647 pounds, contain 88,689,091,770 calories and 17,375,178 pounds of fat.\u00a0 He has some other equivalents and asks readers to come up with their own.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"121\" src=\"\/media\/AmericanCheeseSlices.jpg\"  height=\"129\" style=\"width: 121px; height: 129px\" \/>Here&#8217;s mine:\u00a0 There are eleven, individually-wrapped slices of Kraft American cheese in one inch.\u00a0 We want them individually wrapped, of course, for sanitary purposes and to make repairs to the &#8220;Cheesevator&#8221; easier.\u00a0 A kilometer contains 39,370.0787 inches (have to be exact, of course).\u00a0 One hundred thousand kilometers, then, would contain 3,937,007,870 inches.\u00a0 At 11 slices to the inch, this means that a Cheesevator would contain 43,307,086,570 slices of individually wrapped Kraft American cheese.\u00a0 Each slice of this cheese contains 70 calories and 5 grams of fat giving us a grand total of over three trillion calories (3,031,496,059,900 to be exact) and over two hundred billion grams of fat (216,535,432,850 grams to be exact).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also possible, of course, that the life of a Cheezevator would exceed the life of a carbon-nanotube tether &#8211; this stuff never goes bad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Who said math wasn&#8217;t fun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across an interesting blog post today\u00a0at Rough Equivalents.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0author\u00a0has calculated the weight and quantity needed for a substitute Elevator cable made out of bologna slices.\u00a0 It\u00a0would weigh approximately 61,589,647 pounds, contain 88,689,091,770 calories and 17,375,178 pounds of fat.\u00a0 He has some other equivalents and asks readers to come up with their own. Here&#8217;s mine:\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures-drawings-animations-music-humor-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}