Engineering is magic

[u/Literally_black1984]

[u/Mobile_Gaming_Doggo]

That thing is 50m tall and 9m wide btw.

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50m tall and 9m wide

65 tons of American pride, Canyonero!

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Top of the line in utility sports! Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts. Canyonero. Canyonero!

the federal highway commission has ruled the Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving

Whoa, Cayonero!

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She blinds everybody with her super high beams, She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine! Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)

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whaaa pshhhhh

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1 highway, 0 city

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0.2 football fields is a little hard… lets round up a tad and do 1/2 an olympic-sized swimming pool

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What is that in freedom fries?

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Stacked 100 dollar bills, surely

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~12 seconds of a Phelp.

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little over 1.5 football fields tall and ~0.2 football fields wide.  

Since when are football fields only 100 feet long?

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Uhhh. Not quite. It's a little over half a football field long

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Americans will do anything to avoid the metric system.

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But how many bananas is that?

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Floor area = Length × Width = 50 meters × 9 meters = 450 square meters

Now, let's calculate the space each banana occupies:

Volume of one banana = Length × Diameter² × π / 4 Volume of one banana ≈ 18 cm × (3.5 cm)² × π / 4 ≈ 220.63 cubic centimeters

Now, let's calculate how many bananas can fit in the cargo area:

Number of bananas = Cargo area / Volume of one banana Number of bananas ≈ 450 square meters / 220.63 cubic centimeters Number of bananas ≈ 2,040,630

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r/HeDidTheMath edit: r/Hedidthemathbutincorrectly

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He did the math wrong. Volume of a 50m tall, 9m diameter cylinder is height times area. The area is diameter squared* times pi/4. This gives about 3180 cubic meters. Google gives the volume of a banana at about 284 cubic centimeters. To convert our cubic meters to cubic centimeters we multiple by 100x100x100, or 1000000. This gives 3.18e9 cubic cm. Divide that by 284 to get about 11.2 million bananas.

Edit: area is diameter squared times pi/4

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The area is diameter times pi/4.

This is wrong.

This gives about 3180 cubic meters.

But this is right.

I don't even know how you did it. The diameter times pi/4 is a little over 7. Multiplying it by 50 gets you just over 353.

Now, pi*(r²⁾ or pi * (diameter /2)² gives you about 63.6. Multiplied by the 50 gives you almost 3181.

How you got the right answer, the wrong way, is beyond me.

Edit: I think you forgot to include a squared function on your diameter. So it's probably just a typo on your end.

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Diameter squared times pi/4, my bad! Mistyped the process

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While I would mostly agree that inertia matters for air resistance purposes...I don't like that it goes in direct opposition of the concept of a pound steel vs feathers.

I sincerely hope I'm not making things up, but it makes sense to me that a larger object is not pushed by the wind as easily as a smaller one? Is that why the dimensions are relevant to the discussion?

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That’s 50ish yards tall and 9ish yards wide for Americans btw

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sip gaze afterthought disgusted dependent squeamish snobbish tidy growth wrong

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Come on man think of us Americans. How big is it in Big Macs