[Mercedes Benzene]

An orange tree may bear oranges for more than 100 years. The famous "Constable Tree", an orange tree brought to France in 1421, lived and bore fruit for 473 years

[ronthepon]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

The Russians used a pencil.

, Now that's called using the brain!

[Jay-qu]

you know that is not entirely accurate..

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/613/1

[Mercedes Benzene]

you know that is no entirely accurate..

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/613/1

Good work J!
I'm proud of our space program.

[anto]

Originally Posted by Mercedes Benzene

Fact: No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Does anyone know the science behind this?

I actually read somewhere that someone folded a piece of paper twelve times

The thickness of a piece paper folded 50 times in half is equal to the distance from earth to the sun

[Mercedes Benzene]

Originally Posted by anto

The thickness of a paper folded 50 times is the distance from earth to the sun

Anyway....


A cubic foot of gold, which would fit easily into a plastic milk crate, weighs more than 1,200 pounds. A cubic inch weighs nearly a pound.

Imagine a milk crate of uranium!

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Mercedes Benzene

An orange tree may bear oranges for more than 100 years. The famous "Constable Tree", an orange tree brought to France in 1421, lived and bore fruit for 473 years

Ditto for Apples. We have an Apple tree in my village that is 176 years old and still bearing fruit!
http://www.ci.vancouver.wa.us/parks-.../appletree.htm

[Mercedes Benzene]

The Old Apple Tree was planted in 1826 on Fort Vancouver and is thought to be the oldest apple tree in the Northwest. It is also considered the matriarch of Washington State's apple industry. Vancouver's Old Apple Tree is 176 years old and it's ready for another celebration of life.

Awww... how cute. An apple mommy.

[InfiniteNow]

DISCLAIMER: Please verify the validity of the claims in this thread before treating them as truth.



Farts are four parts unicorn and two parts yellow corn.

[ronthepon]

Originally Posted by anto

I actually read somewhere that someone folded a piece of paper twelve times

The thickness of a piece paper folded 50 times in half is equal to the distance from earth to the sun

Lets see if I can use simple logic to see if this is right.

If width of paper = x

1 fold gets two papers in a stack.

2 gets 4

3 gets 8

4 gets 2^4

...

50 gets 2^50

so,

2^50 x Page width = total width of fold stack.

now 2^50 is around 1.1 x 10^15 u.

Now, distance between earth and sun is.. um... 1.49 x 10^11 meters.

So width of single page (according to that claim) = (1.49 x 10^11/1.1 x 10^15) ~ 1.3 x 10^-4 m

which is about 0.01 millimeters... the width of normal papers!

Wow! He was right!

Paper folding competition, anyone?