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1. over 12 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   MATH!!!!137miles/sec and it takes 250 million years to make a round trip.Then…In 250M yr there are …(250M yr. × 365.25 day/yr x 24 hr/day x 60 min/hr x 60 sec/min) = 7 889 400 000 000 000 secondsAnd at 137 miles/sec then we have traveled.(137 miles/sec x 7.8894×10^15) = 1.0808478×10^18 miles.That is1 080 847 800 000 000 000 milesNote.The distance from Earth to the Sun is 93 000 000 milesThe distance from Earth to Pluto is 2 907 000 000 miles The distance from Earth to nearest star 24,925,000,000,000 milesThe distance from Earth to the nearest galaxy is 1.05225147 × 10^18 milesLOOK OUT WE ARE GOING TO CRASH!

2. almost 13 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   MATH!!!Kinetic energy = 1/2mv^2 … units are joules1 short ton = 907.18474 kilograms100 mph = 44.70400 meters per secondThen Ke = 0.5 * 907.2 * (44.7*44.7) = 906 333.6 joules1Meg = 1 000 000Then a 1 ton car traveling at 100 mph has the kinetic energy of 0.9M joules. ~1M joules33M joules would me that the target would be struck with an equivalent force of 33 1 ton cars traveling at 100 mph. Like throwing a freeway at someone. info on Joules here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule

3. about 13 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   ARRRHHHH! DID NOT CONSIDER A WEIGHT LIMIT.

   I only looked at volume.

   19 billion dollars would weigh.

   19 000 × 20 = 380 000 lbs.

   but what if I stuck to the weight limit then …

   160 000 lbs is what the weight limit is

   but I could fill the volume with 380 000 lbs of $100 bills

   I can only use a portion of my total…

   so

   160 / 380 = 0.42 (this is how much of my total I can actualuse because of the weight limit)

   Then

   19 billion x 0.42 = 8 billion

   which would have been right.

   … sigh :^\

   I need to watch more patrickJMT videos on YouTube.

4. about 13 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   THIS CALLS FOR MATH!

   Hi Cube (High Cubic Volume) railroad box car:length: 60’ 9"Width: 9’ 6"interior height: 13’ 1"Interior volume: ~7580 cu. ft(info via: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Rails-Railroad-2468/2010/2/Box-Car-vs-Trailer.htm)

   Volume of a US 100 Dollar bill “The size of a dollar bill is 6.6294 cm wide, by 15.5956 cm long, and0.010922 cm in thickness.”http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/DeneneWilliams.shtml

   That’s 1.1292 cm^3

   HAHA! Unit CONVERSION IS REQUIRED!1 (cm^3) = 3.53146667 × 10-5 ft^3

   Therefor the US $100 bill is

   (1.1292 cm^3) * 3.5314 × 10-5 ft^3 / 1 cm^3 = 3.9878 × 10-5 ft^3

   And then the number of bills that could fit in the boxcar is…

   7 550.71875 ft^3 / 3.9878 × 10-5ft^3 = 1.8935 × 10+8 bills

   That’s 189345472 number of US $100 bills.

   or

   $18,934,547,200 dollars

   ~19 billion dollars

   Thats my guesstimate.