A Long Word Problem, That's right kids, word problems actually have real world applications!

[sythe179]

again, some more things to consider.

energy cost for melting ice caps, and transport to the said "farm"?

energy cost for keeping "farmers" alive during the "cold season"?

source of food for farmers during "farming" time?

dirt would need to be deeper becouse, you do not lay seeds on flat dirt. trenches need to be there for exess water usage.

if its 7.** foot, then increase it it 9.23

whats the energy consumption for added event-varibles?

aka: solor-storm, metor hitting plants, cold time.

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@sythe179 as I said in the video, this is an over simplification of the problem. I recognized that there would be many things not covered, but as the point of the video was to compare which was more energy intensive, adding more energy costs was not really needed.

[sythe179]

so, with that amount of ships, a few things to consider also.

1. how much energy is used making the fuel?

2. are you making ore than 1 ship, and if so, how much, and how uch energy is spent making the ships.

3. how much energy is spend making the raw materials into pasta?

4. where are you lifing off from? area costs fluctuate depending on what economy your in.

5. what energy is spent keeping people alive inside the vessel during flight?

6. whats growing the plants?

[AuntEon]

This was so cool that you did that. (In response to VlogBrother plea.)

I just watched a 6 min. math video & was very entertained.

It helped that the host was hot too ;-)

[outofthedark]

I still love this SO much!

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@outofthedark YAY!

[sitbunnynow]

You're my hero. I'm subscribing just from seeing this video.

[Flashfire97]

Math for the win. That was so freaking epic. I just love number crunching.

[outofthedark]

So good! Keep it up.

[Cathyjr322]

Assuming that the soil can be reused for subsequent harvests after the firs super expensive one (in terms of calories), I can only surmise that the subsequent caloric values of "Moon Wheat Harvests" would drop drastically.

I shall refer to this theory as caloric start up costs.

After the start up costs, can you guesstimate how many harvests and return deliver trips to earth would it take for Earth Meat to be less efficient that Moon Wheat?

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@Cathyjr322 I covered that in the description bar

[auroralunascopes]

THAT. I love nerdfighteria.

And I'm in awe in front of your mad researching/math skills. You are awesome, and made the avalanche of numbers cool instead of dead boring (as it might have been had my physics teacher tried to do the same ^^)

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@auroralunascopes your physics teacher didn't have the benefit of jump cuts. >_<

[mouseinsneakers]

CONGRATS! Hank talked about your video! 8D

[Desdemonakaylose]

This is why the space pasta should be made with quadrotriticali

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@Desdemonakaylose I love you so hard right now. #TrekkiesFTW!!!

[enya0742]

If farmville took place on the moon I might actually play it.

[MegaAppless]

how about the cow feed?

[copilot10]

@MegaAppless He probably took that into account when calculating the energy cost of beef

[ams3188]

Not to be a creeper, but I'm kind of in love with you after watching this. Go Nerdfighters!

[Zanirtak]

Amurrica XD

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@Zanirtak XD



[Zanirtak]

vegetarians eat eggs. VEGANS don't.

[punkslilncs]

The text comments were hilarious!

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@punkslilncs thank you. I like them too. I'm thinking it might be a thing. I used it in my velociraptor video.

[acco8675309]

This is very cool. I can't believe you did all that. The only thing I'm wondering about is if it would have been more energy efficient to do hydroponic wheat.

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@acco8675309 undoubtedly, but hydroponics are a race against time, to grow the plant before it gets waterlogged called "Verticillium wilt" basically, over watering. for short cycle plants, this is not a problem, and for plants who will be transplanted to soil, also not a problem. all this means you'd need more people there to take care of the plants, which means more supplies. it's just a bad idea all around.

[Dezibahn]

Nicely done. You sir, are my hero.

[pyro5050]

this becomes effective to grow on the oon using your calculations if we are able to grow 3,751,495 crops of wheat, with no more resources needed to be brought up... so essentially after 4million crops, we are more efficent tat the beef finally.... i wonder what the growing cycle of wheat in space would be, all gravity fields being diffrent and the like... :)

wonderful video

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@pyro5050 growing it yes, but if we need to bring it to the earth, then it stops being more efficient.

[g2theIrishPianist]

NERDFIGHTERS.

Only "nitpicky" thing: the camera wiggling at times. It was a touch irksome at times, but your fantastic powers of number-crunching canceled out most of the irk. Very, very nicely done.

Also: I was liking the little text comments throughout ^^

[TheDanc1nghawk]

I usually use a tripod, but I couldn't find the quick-release plate, so the camera was on a kleenex box. sorry.

[rubius0]

well done



[waterfaerie124]

"I've always wanted to say that..."

Haven't we all?

This was kind of epic.

[zrzk]

This is a completely beast video.

[alunalai]

Well done, sir!

Though I'm a bit curious what the caloric value is of the heat, fertilizer, water pumps for irrigation, etc. would be for the space pasta. Though now that I think about it, the same could be calculated for the Earth beef -- in terms of caloric values of cow feed, transport to the slaughterhouse, etc... but given the massive amount of calculations you've already done, I'm not asking :P

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@alunalai there was a LOT I had to leave out, (like the energy of the navel ships to pick up the capsules after they land in the ocean, ect. ) first because I didn't want it to turn into a full 50 minute lecture, and second, because it was 2am when I finished my first sec of number-crunching and i really didn't want to continue.

[xlstadal]

There seems to be a major hole in your math though. This is assuming that the wheat survives the radiation bath from the sun with out any mutations. It would take much more than just one crop to produce enough non-mutated grain for an acre of it.

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@xlstadal I would assume that if there is a moon base (condition #2) , they have figured out the radiation problem.

[mariafoo]

So much math. O_O. *head explode*

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@mariafoo oh, shucks, and you had such a pretty head too. oh well. *grabs mop and bucket*

[ZMComedy]

YOU GOT FEATURED! =D

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@ZMComedy I SAW! XD

[LadybugGirlShow]

Cool video! I have a math degree and my wife has an astrophysics degree so we loved all the number crunching. Thumbs up!!!

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@LadybugGirlShow sweet! my report has now been peer reviewed! XD

but yeah, the number crunching wasn't the hard part, it was the remembering the numbers so I could say them on camera without reading my notes that was the hard part.

[Asraiah]

omg. this was awesome.

[TheEditingShop]

We vegetarians have no problems with eggs. It's the vegans, you're thinking of :P

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@TheEditingShop eh, you all look alike to me. #IsThatRacist?

[TresChic16]

Wow. I very briefly considered trying to figure out the problem (for about...0.32 seconds) but I didn't think anybody actually would. Very impressive!!!

[firnantok]

Whoa! :)

[chrisbogdan]

NERD!!!!!!!!!!

LOL... thats a lot of research!

[crimsong19]

Wow, Jon ... wow ... *applauds*

- Jason

[brightgreenskribbles]

You.are.amazing. And saved me hours of fruitless work because I would have had to try and do it and I would have failed miserably. You are made of awesome. Also you look and sound like my friend Tony. And I admire your intellect and patience sense you would need an abundance of both to do this. Once again. awesome.

[mouseinsneakers]

That was really, really amazing.

Ravenclaw ftw!

[SpeedyReedyTV]

This is an impressive way to spend time :)

[TheDanc1nghawk]

@SpeedyReedyTV I started researching at 10pm friday, and was done editing at 5:50am saturday.