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Pastimes : How many SI members does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
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To: SteveJerseyShore who wrote ()8/30/1999 9:54:00 AM
From: maouse  Read Replies (2) of 23
 
Well, you see, this is a very complicated subject. If on one hand we are talking about materially screwing a physical light bulb into a socket then one can ascertain that the maximum number of entities which can actually touch a single light bulb would be calculated as follows: Surface area of light bulb / surface area of fingers + light switch personnel as well as supervisors. Lord knows SI traders need supervision. Anyway, the surface of a lightbulb is approximately 1 square foot, which would indicate that, at a mere square quarter of an inch per finger, up to 2304 persons can actually be doing the "screwing". Add to this the 12 persons on the switch and we have 2316 persons who need supervision. So the total would obviously be 6948 SI members. Plus interest of course....
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