She did redeem herself by saying "If we ever send somebody to the sun they will have to go at night time"

My girlfriend said 30k miles and 200 pounds.

Then she said 9k miles was the worst answer. I said you do realize your guess was only slightly 3times as far.and said how 3.3 billion is not even fathomable as a distance that could be traveled. "oh he said billion? but they were drunk right"

Claims 3.3 billion is a more excusable drunk answer and 9450 miles and 24lbs seem like thought was put in.

My answer is 3.3 billion. If he said 33 million it would be a closer race of dumb answers but this is 100 times worse literally.

3.3 billion is easily the stupidest, although 10k is also pretty hilarious. fun game.

24lb slightly worse than 9k miles.

ugh, actually, it may be a dead heat.

Wish i could hang out with you gents, im needing the intellectual confidence boost these days

and the but i dont fish reasoning is the same as excusing 3.3 billion miles because "im not an astronaut"

 

Originally Posted by kmc28

yeah but 3.3billion is way farther from the answer than 9k miles

I gotta go with Crawford, without any doubt whatsoever.

3.3b is a brutal fucking answer. But space is massive, like so big at such scale, we cannot really ever get our heads around it. And so any huge fucking guess that is orders of magnitude wrong, could at least be excused by the vast nature of space. 3.3 trillion, 100 billion, 450 million. In a general sense, all of those are pretty much equally horrific.

But 9-10k? I mean, fuck me, wow. That is, idk, there is no excuse. Because for the really realllllllly big, we don't have any frame of reference. For the small, we do. Earth, reality, getting my oil changed every 3k miles, running on the treadmill a few miles a day, throwing a coin into the grand canyon, flying in an airplane for several hours at several hundred miles an hour, blah blah...All of those should give you at least some experiential clue as to 9k being woefully wrong.

So, both are bad, but 9k is streets worse, imo.

 

Originally Posted by Neeek

the first two are so goddamn bad it makes me sick to my stomach. I don't want to pick one because it undermines just how fucking horrible the other answer is.

However, I think I have to go with the 9450. I feel like you should have a much better grasp, even as a dumbfuck, of how far this is. 3.3 billion is fucktarded as just about anything, but I can see being like "omg its really far, I don't know much about outerspace) and just losing your goddamn mind for a few seconds. for the 9450, however, I cannot fathom a way that this could be a guess. It honestly makes me angry and sad at the same time that this person was allowed to live past birth.

lol Neeek wins.

Flatmate- 200'000miles and 300lbs
Fiance- yea around that^ and 150kgs

 

Originally Posted by AbnormalQ

This was a great response.

To be fair to your girl tho,

I'm three weeks into a physics course, and we are still stuck on the question we started with...

Does the earth revolve around the sun, or vice versa?

what are the arguments for the sun revolving around the earth? i'm genuinely curious

 

Originally Posted by MikeyRy

how does 3.3 billion miles not win? that's not even a realistic distance. we're 93 million away from the sun and that's just about common knowledge.

The 93 million is not common knowledge. If you surveyed American college graduates, less than 5 percent would guess within 5 percent of that number.

My wife said 1 million miles and 500 pounds

1) 3.3 - You would have to think a rocket flies at like 10 million miles per hour in order to reach the moon
2) 24 - You should be able to relate the size of a small dog to the possibility of fish existing that is larger than a dog
3) 9,450 - At least it's fathomable because we reach the moon

 

Originally Posted by Kiribato

My wife said 1 million miles and 500 pounds

a keeper.

I am going to quiz my wife in a sec. Im praying she doesnt mimic deoxyribos girl.

EDIT: Phew, she said 200lbs and 400k. Not bad.

Fwiw we asked her mom and she didn't answer much better.

At least it's not her and it runs in the family.

More I think about it, more the 24lb fish is most reasonable and 9500 miles least reasonable.

Most people think freshwater fish and think betas and goldfish and shit.

3.3 billion miles, like yea it's far but we've been there do that's pretty bad.

But 9500 miles... That means Ur car has prolly driven to the moon and back..... What? Like that's gotta be the worst.

I just asked my wife the 3 questions.

Her guesses:

2.6 million people in california
1 trillion miles to the moon
23 lbs biggest freshwater fish caught

Jeez