Bailout Ramen
Just thought I’d point out that McDonalds apple pies are not the best way to gauge a bail-out. $700 billion USD will buy you 3.5 TRILLION (3,500,000,000,000) packs of ramen at 20 cents per pack, although I imagine you could get a better discount at that bulk rate. Since ramen is about 1″ thick, we could stack this pile of ramen from the Earth to the Moon over 230 times (I hope I did the math right). At 6.725 billion people, we could also buy every single person on earth 520 packs of ramen! Or, we could give every investment bank employee a three year supply of noodles, either way, this is a bailout that I support!
Update: As I suspected, my math was wrong in the earlier posting. I forgot to convert from inches to meters when I did the calculations.
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October 1st, 2008 at 11:51 am
That’s a good point. I am expecting traffic on ramen websites to increase in the coming months as well.
October 1st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I get 0.6 trips to the sun (3,500,000,000,000 inches / 63360 inches per mile / 91,000,000 miles to the sun)
October 1st, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Greg, I knew it sounded fishy. Thanks, I’ll fix it.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
I think a 3-year supply of instant ramen, especially the cheap kind, is *exactly* all the investment bankers deserve to eat!
October 21st, 2008 at 9:50 am
It’s sad that anyone in the world should go hungry with such a simple product that costs pennies! Why crow? Why!
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
The grocery stores in Austin have really beefed up the ramen section. It went from 5 feet of space a few weeks ago to 15 feet long! And it’s stocked fully floor to top shelf. And people were clamouring over the ramen like flies on *^#@$!
October 29th, 2008 at 7:36 am
This kind of calculation error sounds very suspiciously like one that cost NASA millions of dollars when trying to land a probe on Mars recently – coincident? I think not!