Absurd questions, taken seriously.
How much energy does the rush-hour subway squeeze out of your ribcage? If a paycheck literally fell from the sky, how would the IRS classify it? Let's Calc runs everyday absurd questions through math, physics, economics, law, and statistics — and shows the working.
A solo Santa would need to fly thousands of times the speed of sound — but that's not even the real problem. Three scenarios, a Fermi estimation, and one genuinely surprising bottleneck.
Let's Calc takes everyday absurd questions and oddball hypotheticals seriously. Each post draws on math, physics, economics, law, or statistics, and follows the signature [INPUT] / [FORMULA] / [OUTPUT] format — assumptions stated, working shown, punchline at the end.
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