Robotics Dinner Conversations

[holygrail]

Thought it would be fun to post our dinner conversation for the night. I have to assume that other teams have also come up with crazy ideas and random thoughts, so please feel free to add yours to thread!

Tonight's conversation revolved around how much space a billion packets of Pizza Hut red peppers would take up. Ten packets take up approximately 5 cubic inches. So a billion packets take up 500 million cubic inches or about 289,000 cubic feet. That means that if you have a house with 10 foot ceilings, you would have to have 14.5 two thousand square foot houses to hold it all. Cool huh?

As a side note, the peppers by themselves only take up only 130000 cubic feet. So, only 6.5 houses worth. The other 8 houses are just full of packaging.

Thought everyone could use a little comic relief. It is robot poisoning season after all.

[DonRotolo]

We calculated the number of meatballs one of our team grandparents had made in her lifetime. Came up with over a quarter-million. This was at the Mentors table...

For your calculation: You'd want to be a lot more exact when estimating the size of a billion based on a measurement of ten. That's how many orders of magnitude different? Better to be within 3 or 4 orders, so maybe a thousand, or at least a hundred.

Or call Pizza Hut, ask how big the box is and how many are in the box.

[Dr.Gusta]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Or call Pizza Hut, ask how big the box is and how many are in the box.

You and I are like the same person I don't go "OH Squirrel" then go back to work I have to chase, observe and learn about the squirrel. This is why our robot is a bit behind schedule. LOVE it though!

[Arpan]

We just blast AC-DC's "Big balls" every day.