[thechat] Bill Gates

[dave mclean]

On 2002.07.23 18:03, William Anderson wrote:

>> 7.    If you change all of Bill Gate's money to $1 bills, you can
>> make a road from earth to moon 14 times back and forth. But you'll
>> have to make that road non-stop for 1400 years, and use a total of
>> 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.
>
> Actually ... a Boeing 747-400 can hold 27,467 cubic feet of cargo.  You can
> get 24,605 dollar bills in a cubic foot.  To hold all of Bill's net worth in
> US$1 bills, it would fill almost 41 747-400s.
>
> However, 27,467 cubic feet of US$1 weighs 689.64 metric tons.  The rated
> cargo carrying capacity of a 747-400 is 124 tons.  Therefore, you'd need to
> spread the load across 227 747-400s to actually fly the money somewhere.

Um... am I the only thinking about the bigger picture here?

747s aren't designed for space travel, nor would they be able to assist a
crew in the construction of a $1 bill "highway" to the moon.

-d

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