Wow, the Pacific Ocean must be really wide, like, that's gotta be longer than 2 football fields placed end to end.
Two? Double that number, then double it again...
Be careful with exponentials!
Do not double it more than 17 times or it will not fit.
can't fold it more than 7 times either
And the depth of at least 10 double decker buses.
16!
It's not wrong.
The Pacific Ocean is so vast in area it could hold 528 Polands.
The Pacific Ocean is also deep... Can we start stacking the Polands?
1 poland is 2500,8m tall fyi
The airspace above it belongs to a nation, so it's gotta be more
Thanks. Useful information.
So since the mean depth of the Pacific's around 4000m, that means, without squishing them, we cannot even fit two layers. If we flip the top layer upside down, we should manage to match the tallest bits with lower bits, and fit them beneath sea level. ... since that top one's upside down now, and staying under sea level would be an arbitrary extra restriction I'd be imposing on myself, we can scrap that arbitrary restriction, and use that upturned flat cut underbelly to plonk a third ontop...
But that's still not as many stacked as I thought.
The pacific's tiny.
It can only hold about 1582 Polands.
Poland into pacific 💪💪💪
Yes.
...?
Are you hinting we should pause to question why?
Maybe not all the Polands want to be in the Pacific.
It can't hold 16! Polands, you're exaggerating
*clicks fingers and points*
Not deep enough.
Right.
Should have known.
Poles.
Tall.
You monster!
Ah yes, the optimal packing of 16 Polands
I suspect with some work we could even fit Poland 17 in there...
We haven't found the upper limit yet, but with more research funding we can get closer
Scientific funding in a nutshell. Fuck me.
Only if you behave yourself.
But 17, probably not.
No, after that critical point, Poland would start to win.
I like how they started to make a grid then just went "fuck it" lol
If you think that’s bad, wait until they try to fit 17!
Thanks, now I'm hungry for waffles
we need an algorithm that calculates the most effiicient way to pack polandsinto any object
You try moving a Poland. It's a stout country.
Isn’t the garbage island like the size of at least three Polands these days? At some point it’s going to accumulate enough organic debris to develop its own topsoil and eventually ecosystem.
It's not really an island though. There's just more garbage there than elsewhere.
Despite the common public perception of the patch existing as giant islands of floating garbage, its low density (4 particles per cubic metre (3.1/yd3)) prevents detection by satellite imagery, or even by casual boaters or divers in the area.
There's an old mexican comedy show where the teacher asks a student how many centimeters are in a meter - she answers something like "29. And there's even room for more!"
Modelled on a mercator projection which doesn't preserve area, then showing exactly the same size on every latitude
Not true. This is a screenshot taken from https://thetruesize.com/, which addresses the issue you mention. You can see, for example, that the yellow outline of poland is larger than the cyan one nearer the equator.
Here's one I did myself to better illustrate that effect:
The Pacific ocean has a surface area of approximately 165 million square kilometres, and poland is about 300,000 square kilometres, so on that basis, you should be able to squeeze around 550 polands into the Pacific, though poorly fitting edges would obviously reduce that, but suffice to say, 16 is well undercounted, and the image accurately portrays that
No, it clearly says you can fit 16 poland in the Pacific, not more
You can fit 16 polands into that area. OP doesn't make any claim that you can only fit 16.
Yeah but we only have 16 Poland in stock
Well at least there are a few backups in case Poland should ever need restoring.
They learned to keep those backups after the first couple of times.
How do you sink a Polish battleship?
By placing the entire country of Poland into the Pacific Ocean while the Battleship is in drydock.
yeah, but one of those polands is so vast it can hold texas lovingly and tenderly
Americans will use anything but metric
You see, Texas wouldn't fit even once, because it's twice the size of the earth. Europeans will never understand that.
The Atlantic Ocean can hold 17 Polands. Therefore, the Atlantic Ocean is bigger.
Those three Polands are conspiring against the other 13!
And 13! is a lot of Polands
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