I ask this question because Mr. Gorgeous Fluffpot is most vexed that he doesn't know the answer. Why does he need to know the answer to this? I have absolutely no idea, but I know that I shall have no rest until someone provides me with the answer !
2006-12-19 21:41:34 · 13 answers · asked by gorgeousfluffpot 5 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cell Phones & Plans
I really don't think he wants an answer to this. I get the impression he's telling you that you're asking him something that's just as silly a question in his opinion .. think back to something you've asked him recently, and that's probably it.
2006-12-19 21:46:27 · answer #1 · answered by JustDucky 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ok, aside from the obvious impossibilities of this (i.e. lack of oxgyen, getting the string attached to the moon in the first place etc.) , it would be something like this:
The moon is about 250 000 miles away from the Earth.
A snail can travel approximately 10cm per minute.
10 cm is the same as 0.00006214 miles, so it can travel this far in a minute. This means is would take 16092.69391 minutes to travel a mile - this is the same as 261.21 hours, or 10.8375 days. So, multiply this by 250 000, it would take 2709375 days to reach the moon, or 7417 years approximately.
Phew!
2006-12-19 21:53:01 · answer #2 · answered by Funky Little Spacegirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi there,
you won't believe i had the same question in my mind about a month ago. So I calculated the time for a snail to reach a moon.The moon is 385000 Km away from earth. The speed of the fastest snail living is 0.0483 Km/h. So we can calculate that it will take:
7971014.5 hours i.e. "922 years and 6.5 months" for a snail to reach the moon.
Hope you got the answer. :-)
2006-12-19 22:01:37 · answer #3 · answered by ~rabin 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lets work this out.
It's about 237,600 miles to the moon.
The worlds fastest snail travels at 0.03mph so it would take 7,920,000 hours to get there.
This is roughly equal to 904 years.
Of course we're assuming this is a super genetically modified snail with the ability to travel without breathing, have kevla skin to avoid burning up in the earths atmosphere, travel up a rope and live for nearly 1000 years!
2006-12-19 21:45:54 · answer #4 · answered by Status: Paranoia 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it would have to be a cheese string cause we all no the moons realy made of it and id say by the time he eats his way there wed have two moons how cool is that get him started now il be watching
2006-12-19 21:46:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the snail will die by the time it gets to the moon - it will sooner be burned up in the atmosphere
2006-12-19 21:49:29 · answer #6 · answered by no-one listens... 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bloody ages! a million years or more I think!
2006-12-19 21:42:47 · answer #7 · answered by lizarddd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5000 years, 244 days, 21 hours approx....
2006-12-19 21:51:11 · answer #8 · answered by Chianti Man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would take by my estimation exactly 5 hours short of Forever
2006-12-19 21:43:17 · answer #9 · answered by Da FienD 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
never. snails cant climb string.
2006-12-19 23:28:33 · answer #10 · answered by nerk0eof 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋