{"id":3810,"date":"2011-08-15T13:50:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2011-08-15T13:50:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:50:28","slug":"what-if-the-moon-were-made-of-cheese-and-you-ate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3810","title":{"rendered":"What if the Moon were made of cheese&#8230;.and you ate it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This lunchtime I stumbled across the following tweet by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/GrrlScientist\">GrrlScientist <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;mmm, cheese! RT <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LookMaNoFans\">@LookMaNoFans<\/a> How many Calories would a Moon made of cheese be, you ask? A made-of-manchego Moon = 285 septillion Calories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A septillion is 10^24 so that&#8217;s a lot of calories!\u00a0 Naturally, I wanted to check the facts so I asked Wolfram Alpha which, sadly, didn&#8217;t have the specifics on manchego cheese so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=carlories+cheese+the+volume+of+the+moon&amp;a=*EAC.ExpandedFood.CheeseClass-_**MontereyCheese.*Food%3AType_Food%3AGeneric---\">I substituted monterey cheese to get a result of 8.5*10^25 calories<\/a>. This disagrees with the tweet but it&#8217;s the figure I&#8217;m going to go with for now.<\/p>\n<p>Since I am into running, I wondered how far I&#8217;d have to run to burn that many calories.\u00a0 Using Wolfram Alpha&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=calories+run\">running calorie calculator<\/a> I found out that at a pace of 8 minutes per mile I would need to run 0.675 miles to burn 85 calories (assuming average body weight*) so would need to run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=0.675*10^24+miles\">6.75*10^24 miles (almost 115 billion light years<\/a>) to burn off the calories contained in a moon made of monteray cheese. That&#8217;s larger than the diameter of the observable universe!<\/p>\n<p>*Obviously, if you ate the moon then you would weigh slightly more than average so this is a gross over-simplification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lunchtime I stumbled across the following tweet by GrrlScientist &#8220;mmm, cheese! RT @LookMaNoFans How many Calories would a Moon made of cheese be, you ask? A made-of-manchego Moon = 285 septillion Calories.&#8221; A septillion is 10^24 so that&#8217;s a lot of calories!\u00a0 Naturally, I wanted to check the facts so I asked Wolfram Alpha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-Zs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3814,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}