Totally Trivial

Originally posted by Bowmann
Rubbish.

No, she folded paper, not rubbish.

Originally posted by crazyblue
6a.) You burn about 150 calories if you bang your head against the wall for one hour.

Well not for me, I only measured about 110...

Originally posted by sonhouse
No, she folded paper, not rubbish.

But you talk it.

Originally posted by sonhouse
well the bit about the folded paper is wrong. A high school girl
just made 10 or 12 folds for sure, had a research project on it. Forget
her name, clearly one of the bright ones though.

Well... it just doesn't seem possible. Unless she started with some ultra thin, mega large paper. 0,1mm x 20 m x 20 m, or something and had some help doing the folding. Muscular help at that.

Originally posted by chasparos
Well... it just doesn't seem possible. Unless she started with some ultra thin, mega large paper. 0,1mm x 20 m x 20 m, or something and had some help doing the folding. Muscular help at that.

And that's the whole point. It shouldn't matter how thin and large a sheet one starts with.

Folding something like aluminium foil is easier, but it's not 'paper'.

One woman claimed to succeed with a roll of toilet paper nearly 4000 feet long, but I'm not sure she didn't cheat:

http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm

Originally posted by Bowmann
And that's the whole point. It shouldn't matter how thin and large a sheet one starts with.

Folding something like aluminium foil is easier, but it's not 'paper'.

One woman claimed to succeed with a roll of toilet paper nearly 4000 feet long, but I'm not sure she didn't cheat:

http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm

Very interesting. Thank you.

Originally posted by Bowmann
It shouldn't matter how thin and large a sheet one starts with.

http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm

According to your own link, there is a lower bound on how 'large' the material must be.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Well not for me, I only measured about 110...

You clearly weren't banging hard enough.