Little Teaser.

Originally posted by FabianFnas
Even at a low salary, say 10 bucks an hour, it will be very expensive to hire an assistant.
Try multiply the hourly salary by the infinity number of hours it will take to dig the bottomless pit and you'll see the money runs out quite soon.
I'll say it is an impossible project.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
That's what slave labor is for.

Originally posted by PBE6
What if we could replace the string with some sort of loogie or booger?

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
What if we don't? That's really gross.

No mention of rising temperatures as you get deeper.
You might argue that you could cur through a segment of the earth and not have to go through the core but, at some point the rope (it can't be string it would snag somewhere) will combust - so what must it be made of?

Originally posted by derts
Little Teaser.

You have to consider the diameter of the string and the hole. The answer could be no distance because of too thick a peice of string and too narrow a pit.

Originally posted by derts
Does anyone know how far you can lower a never ending piece of string into a bottomless pit?

Originally posted by crazyblue
thats a good answer hehe

one more aspect came into my mind though: it's gravity that pulls the string down the pit and that makes the string break at some point. so "below" the "bottomless" pit there has to be some kind of gravity source. but how can there be something below a pit that never ends?
if its not below, but at some point next to the pit, then you can lower the string only to that point (unless it breaks before). right?

Originally posted by derts
Does anyone know how far you can lower a never ending piece of string into a bottomless pit?

Originally posted by derts
Does anyone know how far you can lower a never ending piece of string into a bottomless pit?

Originally posted by TRAINS44
Got aquestion here for all you Einsteins out there. From point A to point B, starting from point A 50ft from point B,..you can only move in halves to point B,.examp..From A, move 25 ft, next move 12 and a half feet, then 6 ft closer to point B etc. Exactly at that rate, will you ever get to point B?

Originally posted by TRAINS44
Got aquestion here for all you Einsteins out there. From point A to point B, starting from point A 50ft from point B,..you can only move in halves to point B,.examp..From A, move 25 ft, next move 12 and a half feet, then 6 ft closer to point B etc. Exactly at that rate, will you ever get to point B?

Originally posted by SJ247
Don't know the rate, but you'd never really get there.

Originally posted by SJ247
Don't know the rate, but you'd never really get there.