That seems unlikely (assuming you’re talking a per capita figure). The average American eats less than a 100 pounds of beef and less than 300 pounds of meat in total each year. I’m assuming the average Netherlander doesn’t eat substantially more meat than the average American.
There’s an average of over 500 pounds of beef in a single cow and over 250 pounds of meat in a single pig. So the average person doesn’t consume the equivalent of a single cow or pig in a year.
Now thirty animals may be slaughtered to provide the meat one person eats in a year but I’m speculating the meat from those animals is divided up and consumed by several people.
If you h ave a sphere with a diameter equal to the average diameter of Earth at the equator, then a piece of string required to wrap around that sphere at the equator is Pi*d long.
If you then make the sphere one inch larger in both directions (or, as he said, merely make the string “float” an inch above the surface) and once again wrap it around the sphere, it will only be 6.28 inches longer, same as if you wrapped it one inch above the surface of something as small as a basketball, because the circumference is now just Pi*(d+2).
Two in one, that make a good ‘trivia quiz’ for idle moments.
Here are the eight largest countries in the world in terms of area, according to Wikipedia:
China, India, Russia, Australia, USA, Brazil, Canada, Argentina
Try to rank them in order, and very few people will get the list anywhere near right. Russia, Canada, China, USA, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina (it says here)
2. Try to name the ninth. Just about nobody will get this right, and this is the part that fits the OP.
He didn’t say that part. He never mentioned any floating, just an additional wrapping, which is a completely different scenario.
It’s a lot less remarkable to say adding an additional 1 inch to a radius means an additional 6.28 inches to the circumference than to try to claim that you could wrap the Earth in string to a height of an inch.
Re: my last. I was ballparking it and using the calculator on the computer. Reducing the size of the Earth to 24,000 miles and using a more accurate (hand-held) calculator, the string is 6.283 inches longer.
Amazing but true. The circumference of any circular object can be found by using the formula 2pir (pi roughly equals 3.14, and r is the radius of said object).
Let b = radius of a basketball
Let e = radius of the earth
In both cases, the extra length is the same - 2pi, or approximately 6.28 in. This is independent of the original radii (note I even used variables rather than actual measurements).
What State is Furthest North, furthest South, East, West?
In a way, Hawaii & Alaska get all Furthest North, South, East, & West. Parts of AK go across the 180th parallel. Thus it gets West & East- and North, of course.
HA is furthest South.
48 contiguous states: WA- N and West, Fla=S, Maine= E.
I know there’s no difference if I use a 25,000 mile Earth circumference vs. a 24,000 mile one. It’s just that when I switched calculators, I used a different number.
The first time I posted the calculations, I made a typo in the calculator and carried it through; hence, the 8 inches. I was already running out of time, and when I noticed it I assumed people would just get the gist. But now I’ve decided to explain it, since I know someone will come along to point it out.
I’ve heard this before, but never explained as well as that. I never even noticed the correlation between 6.28 being roughly 2pi before!
I tried to tell this to a friend with a much higher intellect than I when I first came across the fact, he was confident it was bollocks and I didn’t understand it well enough to attempt disagreeing with him, but it all seems so simple now!
