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[Banjax]

 did you know that the Moon's circumference is just over ¹/₄ of the Earths circumference!

personally i thought it was much smaller 

[Auto Addict]

did you know that the Moon's circumference is just over ¹/₄ of the Earths circumference!

personally i thought it was much smaller 

terribly sorry old boy, I am a little tired.....

[Lizzie_Zoom]

did you know that the Moon's circumference is just over ¹/₄ of the Earths circumference!

personally i thought it was much smaller 

All depends how much you have had to drink, or how near it is to the horizon!!

[Dishevelled Den]

Size isn't everything bj 

[LJay]

Did you require a sensible response Banjaxx?

[Nickbat]

Only 11 percent of the earth's surface is used to grow food.

[Debs.]

did you know that the Moon's circumference is just over ¹/₄ of the Earths circumference!

personally i thought it was much smaller 

  A Euclidean visual anomaly explained simply as: "Pi in the sky!"



BTW: Did you know that the symbol for Pi was first proposed by a Welshman?.......(William Jones: 1706)

[Selseybill]

Depends how far you stand back

[Pitchfork]

did you know that the Moon's circumference is just over ¹/₄ of the Earths circumference!

personally i thought it was much smaller 

  A Euclidean visual anomaly explained simply as: "Pi in the sky!"



BTW: Did you know that the symbol for Pi was first proposed by a Welshman?.......[size=7](William Jones: 1706)[/size]

Had he recently visited Stonehenge??

[cem_devecioglu]

did you know that the Moon's circumference is just over ¹/₄ of the Earths circumference!

personally i thought it was much smaller 

  A Euclidean visual anomaly explained simply as: "Pi in the sky!"



BTW: Did you know that the symbol for Pi was first proposed by a Welshman?.......(William Jones: 1706)

good to learn that.. just to calculate actual pi I need to implement a code

[Banjax]

thanks cem 

[Banjax]

imagine a length of rope wrapped around the earths circumference and pulled tight OK?

so that rope is 40000km long (approx)

now imagine you wanted that rope to be 1 foot above ground all the way round - how much longer would the rope have to be?


guess away - you won't believe the answer (unless you're cem and you calculate it) 

[STMO999]

imagine a length of rope wrapped around the earths circumference and pulled tight OK?

so that rope is 40000km long (approx)

now imagine you wanted that rope to be 1 foot above ground all the way round - how long would the rope have to be?


guess away - you won't believe the answer (unless you're cem and you calculate it) 

I heard this at shool, it's something rediculous like 1".

EDIT: Maybe a yard, but small anyhow.

[Banjax]

imagine a length of rope wrapped around the earths circumference and pulled tight OK?

so that rope is 40000km long (approx)

now imagine you wanted that rope to be 1 foot above ground all the way round - how long would the rope have to be?


guess away - you won't believe the answer (unless you're cem and you calculate it) 

I heard this at shool, it's something rediculous like 1".

EDIT: Maybe a yard, but small anyhow.

not bad stmo, the answer (and i just worked it out) is you only need to add 6'3" to the length of the rope to give you 1 foot of clearance around the planet - isn't that freaky?  :-? :-?

[Banjax]

you want me to show you my workings STMO?