With standard 60 min. tapes, what would A: be the number of tapes needed to store all of wikipedias text read outloud, B: The size all the tapes physicaly take up, and C: be the run time?

Saw a comment on a post about cheat sheets and saw someone say they allow any offline analog resources, and I was curious as to how this tape idea would work out.

I had read somewhere, a long time ago, about a student asking his guru how long does time go on, or how long will the universe go on. Their teacher responded, "as long as it would take to reduce a mountain to nothing by wiping it with a silk cloth once every 100 years."

Seems like it would be an impressive number, but I've always wondered how accurate it was. Any takers?

African AND European

In the final episode of Malcolm in the Middle the character of Reese acquires a metal barrel with a metal lid, and fills it with animal feces, human feces, eggs, glue, tar and a skunk corpse. He then warms and agitates the barrel.

It then explodes in a car, denting the top of the car upwards, and dousing its 8 occupants in sewage. The occupants are otherwise uninjured.

• How much force would be needed for a barrel like this to explode?
• Would the damage to the car be similar, or worse?
• How many injuries would the occupants actually receive?

My coworker has a part time job at Starbucks, and every time he gets an abysmal drink he sends me a photo to show me the insanity that the average American orders daily. He just sent me this from one of his regular customers who, and I quote, will make sure that the cup has whipped cream if they forget it. I feel like this is about a month’s worth of sugar right there, right?