Tuesday, 01 January, 2008

1. By Doug. Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @06:18pm:

   I calculated 691.71 days and was expecting a gotcha when I highlighted the answer.
2. By Blayne. Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @06:22pm:

   691.7097222 to be precise.
3. By . Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @06:29pm:

   You're not supposed to calculate it. You're supposed to come up with a wild guess based only on your sense of how big the world is. Then you're supposed to be amazed at how far off you were.
   
   Too damn many Excel users here...
4. By Doug. Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @06:50pm:

   OK, I re-tried to get into the spirit of this and added a fuzzy function to my macro. My new guestimate is "about 2 years". :)
5. By . Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @07:17pm:

   Trying to keep to the spirit of the thing, i started out thinking i'd use Excel. but i re-read the question and i Figured what you were after--------my answer 1000 days. not too bad i suppose
6. By Schmittenhammer. Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @07:28pm:

   New question:
   If a canoe was going down the road at 25 mph with three flat tires, how many pancakes could you stuff in a dog house?
7. By Curtis. Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @07:39pm:

   How long would it take before you would get bored if you were sittin' on top of the world?
8. By wickershaw. Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @08:09pm:

   The jungles of Brazil and the mountains of Columbia and Ecuador at the equator would take more than two years. I'd guess something on the order of 6,000 days
9. By Blayne. Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @08:23pm:

   I think that if you can walk on water, then you can also walk thru trees and mountains.
10. By . Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @08:29pm:

    I ball-parked it at around 720 days, John...Tickled to find out I wasn't that far off...
11. By CrashRiley. Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @08:38pm:

    I figured it this way: 3 miles per hour X 12 hours per day = 36 miles per day. 25,000 miles (what I remember from grade school to be the circumference of the earth at the equator) divided by 36 = 694 days.
    
    Guess I wasn't far off.
12. By Pancho. Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @08:44pm:

    It's actually hell if you walk the other way (through both poles).
13. By Joe. Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @08:45pm:

    I guessed 2 years
14. By . Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @08:52pm:

    Assuming I can walk on water? You're kidding right? Dude, I did this in 467 days and I SWAM over water.
    Gimme something tough, will ya?
15. By John Wilson. Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @09:10pm:

    So we have a race around the world.
    I go all the way around at 3 mph.
    You go half the distance at 4 mph and the other half at 2 mph.
    Who wins?
16. By Anyone. Comment posted 01-Jan-2008 @10:07pm:

    It would take 666 days to walk around the world. 36 miles a day and the globe is slightly more than 24000 miles in circumference. 24000/36 = 666.6666666666666666666 days.
17. By Blue. Comment posted 02-Jan-2008 @12:00am:

    John Wilson wins. Consistency rules. If it was half the time each, then it would be a tie.
18. By GlennInBR. Comment posted 02-Jan-2008 @12:07am:

    What, no one wants to answer Schmittenhammer's riddle? All right, try this then...
    
    If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
19. By . Comment posted 02-Jan-2008 @12:18am:

    If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
    
    The answer is four. Because motorcycles don't have doors.
20. By GreenBoy. Comment posted 02-Jan-2008 @04:08am:

    I just googled the question 'How long to walk around the world' and 4th answer was a link to this post, I am therefore guesing its an endless loop....
21. By . Comment posted 02-Jan-2008 @04:39am:

    Interesting problem which says more about people's reaction to the type of question you posed. One type of person will comply with your question and SWAG it. The other type will find a calculator and the circumference of the earth at the equator and do the math.
    
    Then there's the Rosie Ruiz type of person who just ride the subway in Quito and guess about a half hour.
22. By Rojo. Comment posted 02-Jan-2008 @06:17am:

    Ok, i will think about it. Maybe next year if the atlantic ocean have low tide.
23. By wally the duck. Comment posted 02-Jan-2008 @07:14am:

    At the equator? Too hot there. Besides, that's the long way around, isn't it? Why make it so hard on yourself? And why walk when you could just fly?
    I remember some guy from Minnesota walking around the world back in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The land parts only, not the water. He wore Red Wing boots; his brother went part way but was killed in Afghanistan. I've got the guy's autograph somewhere... no idea why.
    
    Here we are in the near year and alrady it seems so... so... different.
24. By . Comment posted 02-Jan-2008 @07:56am:

    ...and it would of course make a difference if you were walking eastward or westward (Around the World in 80 Days...)
25. By Mean Jean. Comment posted 02-Jan-2008 @08:02am:

    The water level is going up, not down. Add a couple more days.
26. By Dave (TDC). Comment posted 02-Jan-2008 @08:37am:

    In 2007 the most accurate measurement of the size of the Earth were made and it seems that it is 5mm smaller than we previously thought.
    Everybody please adjust your calculations to account for this.
27. By . Comment posted 02-Jan-2008 @01:09pm:

    Thanks Dave(TDC) I was just finishing my calculations
    now I will have to do them all over

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