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How many cups of sugar does it take to get to the moon?
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according to max on a goofy movie 3.5
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If you were, before death, to specifically request to have your remains flown to the moon to rest there-
then killed yourself by eating, say, a hundred cups of sugar in a bizarre piece of attention-grabbing performance art-
Then maybe they'd send you as an act of sympathy.
So I say about a hundred, depending on your tolerance for such things.
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Jet fuel = 135,000 Btu/gallon According to: http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/2002/html/table _04_06.html 424 Btus = energy in 1 oz of sugar According to: http://www.p2pays.org/ref/36/e3/www.oit.doe.gov/e3handbook/appenf.shtml.htm Since one gallon is equal to 128 ounces, that means that 16 cups (8 oz per cup) will equal 1 gallon. So one gallon of sugar is 54, 272 Btu?s 128 oz of sugar is approx. 8 pounds All Apollo missions carried and used around 5,625,000 pounds of propellant According to: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_fuel_did_Apollo_11_need_to_get_to_the _moon So the Apollo missions used 703,125 gallons of fuel There is 9.4921875 x 1010 Btu?s in the amount of fuel for the Apollo mission?wow! So How much sugar would you need to equal the amount of energy in the 703,125 gallons of fuel use in the mission? 54, 272 Btu?s gallon ( how many gallons?) = 9.4921875 x 1010 Btu?s Solve for how many gallons? 1749002.709 gallons Now multiply that by 8 b/c theres 8 cups in a gallon 13,992,021.67 cups of sugar =] Thx this was fun
There is no way that you thought of all this math, and didn't come to the conclusion that baking cups are NOT equivalent to liquid measure. It is possible to dissolve an entire cup of sugar in just 2 ounces of water, thereby making your 8 [liquid] ounces per cup a bad measure.
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See, I figured that you'd just stack the cups of sugar on top of each other until they reached the moon. Assuming the moon is in the average of it's orbit, and assuming each cup of sugar is 3" tall, I think it would take 6,219,840,000 cups.
A more interesting question would be how many grains of sugar does it take to get to the moon?
Matt Bettilyon
you all missed the point he eats sugar for breakfast and needs to know how much to bring.