Posted on 09/25/2010 5:51:11 AM PDT by mattstat
I teach math and I am always on the look out for interesting problems. It makes an nice exercise to calculate how many rectums it would take to fill those containers. The 20-foot container is a standard size; we have all seen these containers on the highway. They measure 20′ x 8′ x 8.5′ feet. The volume is 1,360 cubic feet.
We only need one more piece of information. The size of the average, deboned, inverted pig’s rectum is two feet long, and 2 inches wide. For the purposes of this calculation, we can assume that the rectum is a parallelepiped, which is to say, a rectangular box of size 2′ x 0.167′ x 0.167′ feet.
A standard rectum thus takes up 0.056 cubic feet. We’ll ignore packing considerations for now and imagine that we’re trying to stuff as many rectums as we can into a container. This calculation, which will represent an upper bound, is easy: we have 1,360 available cubic feet, and each rectums takes up 0.056 cubic feet.
That makes about 25,000 rectums per container. Using the universal principle “one pig, one rectum”, this makes it 25,000 pigs slaughtered per container. Of course, packaging adds bulk, so that the actual number of rectums that can be transported per container must be less. A figure of 20% to 30% increase per rectum seems reasonable. That is, each dry rectum, considering the plastic, dry ice, cardboard, etc., is like 1.2 to 1.3 packaged rectum. ...
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Just how many would be required to fill ALL the Mosques in America? Now that’s a math problem I would like to know the answer too!
There’s pork rectums with bones in them?
His formula is flawed, he doesn’t take into consideration the squash factor.........
Congress is full of them, but many like Barney Frank are bone in.
“but many like Barney Frank are bone in.”
OMG, there’s coffee all over the desk!
Please submit 2$ towards the New Keyboard for Hilljilly fund.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that... </seinfeld>
“Just how many would be required to fill ALL the Mosques in America? Now that’s a math problem I would like to know the answer too!”
Yes Sir! However many it takes, we have enough, delivery should start immediately.
Pork rectums are resilient against squashing.
In all the bath houses in San Francisco.
Rectum? Dang near killed ‘em.
[RIM SHOT]
Good excercise - counting how many democrats will fit in one of those barrels.
I had heard that in the pork business every part of the hog was used except the curl in the tail. This is apparently true, but it scares me to think of what purpose pork rectums are used. Perhaps pork rectums might also be used as part of the foundation of the ground zero mosque.
Boneless Pork Rectum Ping
Nor persent moisture in rectums.
I usually just spit the bones out of my pig rectums
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