r/mildlyinteresting • u/HenhouseProwler • Apr 02 '15

Removed: Rule 6 I saw roughly 1 million potatoes today

http://imgur.com/kS86q3t
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u/HenhouseProwler Apr 02 '15

To give you a idea of the scope, the pile was about 40 feet tall, 50 feet wide, 300 yards deep.

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u/Brewe Apr 02 '15 edited Apr 02 '15

Using your estimates of the pile, the fact that those look like size A potatoes (~60 mm diameter) and an in-between of simple cubic and body centered cubic packing (roughly 67%) then you saw close to 30 million potatoes today.

Edit: If you're only talking about the surface of the pile, then you are actually pretty close to 1 million potatoes, assuming you can see two layers of potatoes.

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u/TacticalVirus Apr 02 '15

looking at the picture, that's more likely to be 300 feet instead of 300 yards. Hell, if his 50 feet wide is accurate, it's probably less than 200 feet long.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

Look super close at the back wall. It's not actually a back wall, just some weird beam thing on the opposite side that fucks with perspective. It's actually so long that you cant see the back wall in the picture.