skeith2011
skeith2011 t1_irxzob2 wrote
Reply to comment by RoterFuchs1994 in Museum shows off Taiwan flag which went to the moon on Apollo 11 by Pure_Candidate_3831
So a cotton shirt weighs about 5oz on average, which is 0.3125 pounds. Let’s say that the flag would take only 20% (i.e. 1 shirt makes 5 flags) of the shirt fabric to make one, which gives 0.0625 pounds.
In 1969 when Apollo 11 launched, there were 126 nations in the UN. Adding the 50 states gives a total amount of 176 flags on board the spacecraft.
176 flags times 0.0625 pounds per flag gives 11 pounds total. Kind of a negligible amount.
skeith2011 t1_it4bo6u wrote
Reply to comment by 4kNest in [Image] Try to be a little better every day by pescablogwf
Let t0 = a
Then
> t1 = t0 + 0.01*t0 = 1.01*t0
And
> t2 = 1.01*t1 = 1.01*1.01*t0
> t3 = 1.01*t2 = 1.01*1.01*1.01*t0
> …
> tn = (1.01)^n * t0