What are some of the craziest scientific facts? I'll start with something I calculated.

>one single grain of rice has enough calories that even if you run a marathon every single day for 100 years, you would have used only 35% of that grain of rice's energy if energy is calculated by the mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc^2

Assumptions
>the grain of rice weighs 29 milligrams
>one day is 3000 kcal for the marathon and another 3000 for other activities

>>16701380 (OP)
anon, energy can not all be used, only differentials in energetic potential can be used to do work
like you can not extract the atomic binding energy of the atoms in a grain of rice without expending energy to do so.

like if you want to use gravity for energy you can't just put something on the surface of earth because it will be at rest. You have to put it up high so it falls. now you have extracted gravitational potential energy, but you incurred a cost elevating the item.

If you take the number of Starships (and boosters) required to create a self sustaining colony on Mars and set them all on their sides, the distance would almost be exactly equal to the US-Mexican land border.

>>16701571
Got it, so if I put my body high enough that I can fall for the rest of my life I can stop eating?

>>16701587
Yes

>>16701380 (OP)
The planet closest to Earth, on average, is Mercury.

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>>16701380 (OP)
estimating the cost of a shrek plushie at $50, the entire world's economy as measured by GDP could produce enough to cover the vatican city to a depth of half a mile of shreks within an hour

on top of the handwzy assumptions I made to calculate this, I did it years ago and barely remember it

>>16701380 (OP)
there are more drops of water in the oceans than there are atoms in a cup of water.

>>16701568
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and has all that powerful rice chomping abilities.

>>16701584
Dude, they won't let us bring 3 oz of water onboard. Who's going to let you lay out a line of highly explosive Starships along the border.

>>16702490
Then let them drink Baja Blast