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MythBusters - Folding Paper Seven plus times
Posted 15 years ago by retro in category: interesting
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kevgallacher - 15 years ago [ Reply ]
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It's not an accurate experiment, if you are going to scale up an experiment you should scale up all variables. In this case a football pitch is well over a hundred times the size of A4 paper, so therefore the paper thickness should be over 100 times thicker meaning the paper should be about 1cm thick.

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pkbluenose - 15 years ago
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  Too right. look at the machines and manpower involved.  
(guest) - 12 years ago
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  Exactly. This is why I hate mythbusters. They love to "bust" myths by not doing the experiments accurately. Lest we forget I'm pretty sure the 7 folded paper idea only really applies to normal office paper. Not football sized and inaccurately thin paper. But hey, whatever entertains for a tv show 

Somecoolusername - 15 years ago [ Reply ]
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err ok, it's only paper

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