In the movie Ghostbusters, Egon Spengler states:
I always though a really big twinkie would weigh more than that. How much would a Twinkie this size actually weigh? And wouldn’t it collapse under its own weight?
–Nut
Give a monkey a brain and he’ll swear he’s the center of the universe.
Well, by my calculations, a 35 foot long Twinkie would comprise the volume of 1,259,712 standard Twinkies. At 1.35 ounces per twinkie, this works out to 105,553 pounds.
This is noticeably larger than the figure quoted by the esteemed Dr. Spengler. The discrepancy can surely be explained through the fact that the good doctor is discussing a psycho-kinetic Twinkie.
This just reinforces my theory that NOTHING in that movie was true!
"That’s a big twinkie…"
Ernie Hudson’s funniest line ever.
but wouldn’t a larger twinkie have larger pockes of air? Or is there a flaw in my 3AM theory.
Maybe the air pockets were filled with helium?
As many Dopers can attest at speeds approaching the
speed of light, Newtonian phsyics do not apply. At high enough levels of energy, Relativity and Quantum Theory contradict eachother.
Extensive research has repeatedly demonstrated that no current physics model can full explain the Twinkie. For many years it was believed that Twinkies contained exotic matter, but Stephen Hawkings disproved this in 1985 (Black Holes, Redshifts, And Golden Sponge Cake-Viking Press). A Twinkie, much like Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome, has a structural integrity directly proportional to its size. A Twinkie the size of the World Trade Center could withstand stresses that would pulverize the twin towers. Currently MIT is building a 20 billion dollar superconducting-collider array designed to accelerate Twinkies. Doctor Pervectolove, head of the project, has said "With this cannon shall we finally shatter the gates of the great tower and ascend to a true knowledge of the cosmos."