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This is for only the brightest of bright minds.

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on May 3, 2025, 10:48 am

How long would it take for all the water on Earth to drip thru a faucet at the rate of one drop per second? The answer will be given later, after you have posted your own answer with an explanation of how you derived it.

Good luck!

What material is the faucet made of?

Posted by Ken C on May 4, 2025, 12:41 pm, in reply to "This is for only the brightest of bright minds."

If it's not a hypothetical infinite lifespan faucet, then it might only last 100 - 10,000 years. The faucet will fail before the experiment ends.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180816132009.htm

Re: This is for only the brightest of bright minds.

Posted by Ken C on May 4, 2025, 12:29 pm, in reply to "This is for only the brightest of bright minds."

NASA says Earth has about 370 quintillion gallons of water. https://x.com/NASAEarth/status/1638564098320510976?lang=en

USGS says One gallon = 15,140 drips https://water.usgs.gov/edu/activity-drip.html

370 quintillion * 15,140 = 5.6018e+24 seconds

= 9.3363333e+22 minutes

= 1.5560556e+21 Hours

= 6.4835648e+19 Days

= 1.7763191e+17 Years

Or about 177,000,000,000,000,000 Years?

The last stars will burn out in only 100,000,000,000,000 years, so no one will be able to watch this faucet drip the last drop.

I’ll pass. I’m pretty good at guessing how many beans in a jar.

Posted by GOG on May 3, 2025, 10:51 am, in reply to "This is for only the brightest of bright minds."

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