Could spider silk be the solution to this?
Super lightweight and very strong. Plus it's springy, so that can even out any sharp tugs on the line.
kayzeekayzee
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I assume you meant to say they're not above the equator, which I didn't actually know until now.
We can find the new length by simply multiplying the equator total by cos(latitude), since circumference is linear to radius.
For subtropical jet streams, latitude is around +/-30 degrees, so our adjusted price comes out to around $950k.
For polar jet streams, the latitude is around +/-60 degrees, bringing the price to $555k.
Extra note: The jet streams can reach speeds of >100mph, so I don't think our poor little toothpick and plastic film kites will survive!
This also assumes the time you spend making 100k kites is worth nothing to you. Say you can make 20 kites in an hour (1 every 3 minutes), and you work for 15 hours every day. It will take you 333 days to finish that on your own.
Doing some quick math here:
Circumference of the Earth is about 24k mi = 44M yds.
The cheapest fishing line I could find online (from Amazon) (I didn't search very hard though) was $10 for 440 yds of line. To circle the Earth, you'd need 44M / 440 = 100k spools = $1M for the fishing line.
Let's assume every spool needs about 1 kite. That's 100k kites. You can find kites online for like $5 each, but the cheapest way to get a kite is probably to bulk order wooden sticks and plastic film and make them yourself. Let's do the math on that.
Assume each kite requires a generous 5 ft^2 of film, and 10 ft of sticks. I found some bulk plastic film rolls online (from McMaster Carr) for about $0.02 per ft^2, and some wooden marshmellow sticks (on Amazon) for about $0.10 per foot. That makes $0.02*5 + $0.10*10 = $1.10 per kite. That totals $1.10 * 100k = $110k.
So using these estimates, this kite ring costs around $1.11M.
No clue if it would actually work though.
Edit: corrected a math error
Looks like we found our first suspect lol
If you can turn the wheel, you can use the turn signal. It should be muscle memory
Marge toes...
Oh yeah, by all means report on this case to the psychologist community. I'm saying you shouldn't just spread this everywhere and call it "news"; There's too many stupid people willing to do shit like feed their kinds bleach because they think it cures autism or some shit.
Yeah there's too much pseudoscience around mental health to take one anecdotal case seriously. I'd even go as far to say that publishing this as "news" is pretty irresponsible.
Come back when you have a peer-reviewed study with dozens of test cases please
I quite dislike the word "quishing"
Heading to venice with a pocket full of termites ๐