16!
It’s not wrong.
The Pacific Ocean is so vast in area it could hold 528 Polands.
The Pacific Ocean is also deep… Can we start stacking the Polands?
1 poland is 2500,8m tall fyi
Thanks. Useful information.
So since the mean depth of the Pacific’s around 4000m, that means, without squishing them, we cannot even fit two layers. If we flip the top layer upside down, we should manage to match the tallest bits with lower bits, and fit them beneath sea level. … since that top one’s upside down now, and staying under sea level would be an arbitrary extra restriction I’d be imposing on myself, we can scrap that arbitrary restriction, and use that upturned flat cut underbelly to plonk a third ontop…
But that’s still not as many stacked as I thought.
The pacific’s tiny.
It can only hold about 1582 Polands.
Could maybe wedge one more Poland vertically scrunched up into The Mariana Trench… 1583.
Okay. The Pacific’s pretty big.
It can’t hold 16! Polands, you’re exaggerating
*clicks fingers and points*
Not deep enough.
Right.
Should have known.
Poles.
Tall.
You monster!
yeah, but one of those polands is so vast it can hold texas lovingly and tenderly
Wow, the Pacific Ocean must be really wide, like, that’s gotta be longer than 2 football fields placed end to end.
And the depth of at least 10 double decker buses.
Two? Double that number, then double it again…
Be careful with exponentials!
Do not double it more than 17 times or it will not fit.
can’t fold it more than 7 times either
I thought you making a joke about the number in the post being an arbitrary 16 until I did the math
So Six Football fields?
Probably maybe!
Or Seven even…
Six seven, nobody really knows
Well that’s not surprising.
There are only 2 poles, the north pole and the south pole.
How big can that country be?I like how they started to make a grid then just went “fuck it” lol
You try moving a Poland. It’s a stout country.
If you think that’s bad, wait until they try to fit 17!
we need an algorithm that calculates the most effiicient way to pack polandsinto any object
Thanks, now I’m hungry for waffles
Ah yes, the optimal packing of 16 Polands
I suspect with some work we could even fit Poland 17 in there…
If you put them too close to each other, Russia will try to invade. They’re drawn to it sorta like a magnetic Poland field. Once you have too many Poland’s, it’s best to play it safe.
But how will Russia invade Poland without Nazi Germany there to help them??
We haven’t found the upper limit yet, but with more research funding we can get closer
Scientific funding in a nutshell. Fuck me.
Only if you behave yourself.
Modelled on a mercator projection which doesn’t preserve area, then showing exactly the same size on every latitude
Not true. This is a screenshot taken from https://thetruesize.com/, which addresses the issue you mention. You can see, for example, that the yellow outline of poland is larger than the cyan one nearer the equator.
Here’s one I did myself to better illustrate that effect:
The Pacific ocean has a surface area of approximately 165 million square kilometres, and poland is about 300,000 square kilometres, so on that basis, you should be able to squeeze around 550 polands into the Pacific, though poorly fitting edges would obviously reduce that, but suffice to say, 16 is well undercounted, and the image accurately portrays that
No, it clearly says you can fit 16 poland in the Pacific, not more
You can fit 16 polands into that area. OP doesn’t make any claim that you can only fit 16.
Yeah but we only have 16 Poland in stock
Well at least there are a few backups in case Poland should ever need restoring.
They learned to keep those backups after the first couple of times.
I have some polish as well but they’re not quite the real thing
I know that the ocean is big enough, but OP uses a Mercator projection and pastes the same size Poland all over the map
You have used correctly resized maps, they didn’t
I really don’t understand why you’re doubling down here, when faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The map I used and the one originally posted are both from the same website, and when overlaid, the two maps match pixel for pixel. There is no difference in projection or distortion between them. The outlines of Poland are very clearly not the same size all over the map.
Isn’t the garbage island like the size of at least three Polands these days? At some point it’s going to accumulate enough organic debris to develop its own topsoil and eventually ecosystem.
It’s not really an island though. There’s just more garbage there than elsewhere.
Despite the common public perception of the patch existing as giant islands of floating garbage, its low density (4 particles per cubic metre (3.1/yd3)) prevents detection by satellite imagery, or even by casual boaters or divers in the area.
well make more trash then duderino
I was being hyperbolic and facetious.
i hear someone was doing something to make it smaller, which i’m not sure how i feel about because we’re going to need all the viable landmass we can get
In the purely speculative fiction mindset of “what if”, I am kinda fascinated by the idea that nature will eventually find a to deal with our hubris. We can make the planet uninhabitable for ourselves as we know ourselves and the other living beings we currently see living around us. Because we know this and are aware of the potential we should use that same awareness to lessen the impact, not just for ourselves but because there’s living being who can’t stop or lessen the impact of what we’re doing. But give the planet a few more hundred million years and on the off chance there’s still a hominid lineage kicking it, they won’t be Homo sapiens as we recognize them and while our plastics are unnatural, Mother Nature will eventually find a way to make due with what we’ve done or recycle it. That’s not nihilism or an excuse to not care/prevent, just the reality that we’re a brief moment in geologic time even if we’ve utterly fucked the current environment during our stay.
you might enjoy the book Earth by David Bryn. I liked it because it has gravity waves and transhumanism. OOO i just remembered also voluntary reversible sterilization as like, birth control. I can’t remember if the Garbage Patch was a new continent or just a city, but i think it featured in the book. I will say no more because spoilers, it’s best to discover the book yourself. I think i last read it a decade ago.
As far as I’m aware, the “garbage island” is really more like a really super fucking polluted region where there’s tons of garbage, not like a specific amalgam of trash that actually stays dry on top or anything
I know. As I pointed out to someone else the comment was more tounge in cheek than literal. It isn’t really an “island”. But since making the joke I’ve come to find out my joke actually undersells the volume. The area of accumulated waste is 5x the size of Poland even though it’s not actually forming a landmass 😞
But 17, probably not.
No, after that critical point, Poland would start to win.
Are you trying to create a radioactive super Poland!?
Mathematics believes it is possible, they just have to work out the optimal packing.
There’s an old mexican comedy show where the teacher asks a student how many centimeters are in a meter - she answers something like “29. And there’s even room for more!”
El Chavo? Sounds like something the Chilindrina would say.
How do you sink a Polish battleship?
By placing the entire country of Poland into the Pacific Ocean while the Battleship is in drydock.
Americans will use anything but metric
You see, Texas wouldn’t fit even once, because it’s twice the size of the earth. Europeans will never understand that.
That’s measuring with what, how many football fields? You’d still have to convert to American anyway.
The Atlantic Ocean can hold 17 Polands. Therefore, the Atlantic Ocean is bigger.
Those three Polands are conspiring against the other 13!
And 13! is a lot of Polands
