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Lt.Crumpet · Aug 10, 2005, 02:50 PM // 14:50

ok folks here is the most complex question i could come up with.

how many cups of sugar does it take to get to the moon?

a friend of mine used to walk around saying this just to see what people would say. so what are you going to say!

Swampgirl Inez · Aug 10, 2005, 02:58 PM // 14:58

An average cup of sugar is approximately 3 inches tall, so it is:

5,052,493,438.333333 cups to the moon

Lt.Crumpet · Aug 10, 2005, 03:02 PM // 15:02

but the accual cups are not being stacked, just the raw sugar. sugar spreads out when stacked. i think that either the sugar would spread out and cover the entire planet with sugar, or the pile of sugar would have enough mass to creat a strong enuf gravatational field that the moon would come twards it leading to global apocalyps (however u spell it)

Swampgirl Inez · Aug 10, 2005, 03:17 PM // 15:17

You wouldn't change the orbit of the moon because you are not changing the mass of our planet, unless you are 'importing' the sugar from nearby planets?

Anyway, it would be more likely you covered our globe the higher you piled the sugar. Wind would spread the sugar around as it gets higher in the pile and gravity would bring it back down to earth.

Squizzard45 · Aug 10, 2005, 03:21 PM // 15:21

can we use any othere instruments or substances (e.g. some sort of glue to make the sugar stack up straight and tall)??

Dumb Quixote · Aug 10, 2005, 03:41 PM // 15:41

It takes zero cups of sugar to get to the moon. But it does take one rocket ship.

midnyte13 · Aug 10, 2005, 03:42 PM // 15:42

It only takes 10, but you have to eat it all at once and when you get to the moon you die of diabetic shock......thats why no one does it.

Swampgirl Inez · Aug 10, 2005, 03:45 PM // 15:45

Midnyte, you've obviously underestimated the sugar tolerance of some people; my husband, just to name one. Sometimes, I think he's trying to build up an immunity.

Mugon M. Musashi · Aug 10, 2005, 04:16 PM // 16:16

as the pessimistic type, I'd say "you can't go to the moon"

EverBlue · Aug 10, 2005, 04:51 PM // 16:51

EVERYONE knows it only takes 3. You spread it around on the floor in the shape of a pentagram and you start dancing.

MSecorsky · Aug 10, 2005, 05:00 PM // 17:00

It would depend on the amount of energy released when sugar burns and the mass of the sugar/vehicle containing it.

Odds are you cannot get enough energy out of sugar to launch it.

ManadartheHealer · Aug 10, 2005, 05:12 PM // 17:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by EverBlue

EVERYONE knows it only takes 3. You spread it around on the floor in the shape of a pentagram and you start dancing.

Pretty sure Satan's Shuttle Service doesn't go to the moon

L33t Masta · Aug 10, 2005, 05:16 PM // 17:16

Man has never been to the moon. the Lunar landing was fake. Thus it takes 0 cups of sugar to reach the moon.

EnDinG · Aug 10, 2005, 05:19 PM // 17:19

Hm... I'd have to say, but there is probley not enough sugar on the planet to even beable to get up to the moon.

Hoyt · Aug 10, 2005, 05:44 PM // 17:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by MSecorsky

It would depend on the amount of energy released when sugar burns and the mass of the sugar/vehicle containing it.

Odds are you cannot get enough energy out of sugar to launch it.

Yuh huh.
You could produce ethanol from the sugar to convert to rocket fuel or use sugar fuel cell batteries and take a long slow trip to the moon.
Either way, it'd take a whole lotta sugar.

Dac Vin · Aug 10, 2005, 08:04 PM // 20:04

My answer: Why do you want to know that?

Caco-Cola · Aug 10, 2005, 09:10 PM // 21:10

You couldn't do it. The sugar would drift away into space as soon as you started up your engines to go get more sugar.

To drift forever into the unknown until it reaches some Extra-terrestrial life who is allergic to it and they die.

This death would thusly bring about retaliation upon the Earth in a War of the Worlds type scenario.

Shortly after, the creatures would die to the diseases of the earth and all that would be left is a hell of a lot of sugar.

Then, billions of years down the road, the sugar would evolve into cotton candy people who melt when they go out into the rain. They would then contemplate their existence and why it is so cruel.

Those with homes will walk the streets to their jobs after a rain (in thick rubber shoes so their feet don't dissolve) and look at the remains of their homeless brethren being washed away into the sewers.

Some day they'll eventually develop space travel, unlocking the power hidden within sugar and then they will step onto the moon thus solving the problem.

The answer? 42.7892 cups.

d4nowar · Aug 10, 2005, 09:22 PM // 21:22

Well, it takes one cup.

If you throw the cup of sugar then it will get to the moon.

Sleepy · Aug 11, 2005, 02:40 AM // 02:40

o come on ppl, it takes a few M&M to launch a rocket out of earths orbit if u converted the mass into raw energy, so i'd say oooh....0.489260070707... of a cup(yes, i luv math just that much

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conker · Aug 11, 2005, 12:09 PM // 12:09

im guessin 69 cups