# How much for a tunnel of Livesavers for an ant to walk to the moon? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 28, 2009, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-tunnel-of-livesavers-for-an-ant-to-walk-to-the-moon/494603 "2009-04-28T10:46:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-tunnel-of-livesavers-for-an-ant-to-walk-to-the-moon/494603/21 "2009-04-28T18:37:28Z")
If you asked nicely, I’m sure the good people at Wrigley would give you some kind of volume discount: [Life Savers - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Savers) ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-tunnel-of-livesavers-for-an-ant-to-walk-to-the-moon/494603/22 "2009-04-28T18:45:58Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > That kind of money is chump change to me. I lose more than that down the back of the sofa. Mind if I clean your couch? I’ll do it for free and everthing! Back to the question at hand. How well to licked lifesavers stick? I think ant boots are the least of our worries. But, if we’re worried about ant life span, I did just read about fitting stilts to ants to increase their speed. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-tunnel-of-livesavers-for-an-ant-to-walk-to-the-moon/494603/23 "2009-04-28T20:32:43Z")
You’ll have to give the first ant incentive to make the trip. The _second_ ant will follow the scent-trail. Until you clear the first hurdle, no sense in doing a bunch of math. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-tunnel-of-livesavers-for-an-ant-to-walk-to-the-moon/494603/24 "2009-04-28T20:38:25Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > That kind of money is chump change to me. I lose more than that down the back of the sofa. Wouldn’t you be closer to losing the sofa down the back of this amount of money? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-tunnel-of-livesavers-for-an-ant-to-walk-to-the-moon/494603/25 "2009-04-28T21:00:47Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > That kind of money is chump change to me. I lose more than that down the back of the sofa. _looks for **jjimm** ’s old sofas on Craigslist_ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-tunnel-of-livesavers-for-an-ant-to-walk-to-the-moon/494603/26 "2009-04-28T21:35:33Z")
Technically the $150,000,000 jjimm lost down the back of a sofa was a check from Publisher’s Clearing House. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-tunnel-of-livesavers-for-an-ant-to-walk-to-the-moon/494603/27 "2009-04-28T22:28:11Z")
I’ve not read anyone’s reply, including the OP’s. Here’s my take on it [spoiler]Google price check has a bag of 20 rolls for $16.58. As an aside, doesn’t that sound pricy? OK. So if each roll is 3 inches long you can get four rolls to the foot. That’s 5 feet of life savers per bag. 5,280 feet per mile or 1,056 bags. Let’s call that $17,000 per mile. 250,000 miles to the moon. That’s…um…250+175… $4,250,000,000. 4.25 BILLION dollars![/spoiler] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-tunnel-of-livesavers-for-an-ant-to-walk-to-the-moon/494603.md?page=1)