So Hooper came to visit…
True to form we started talking like stupid scientists, then our curiosity got the best of us and we had to cave and start doing math. Today’s topic: a mole of chickens.
Average chicken weight is 6 lbs, which is 2.7 kg. A mole of chickens therefore has a mass of 1.6 X 10^24. This puts it in the celestial body range. Earth is 6.0 X 10^24 and the moon is 7.4 x 10^22 meaning that a mole of chickens would be a giant sphere 1/3 the mass of the earth and 22 times more massive than the moon (also 2.5 times more massive than Mars—didn’t realize Mars was that much smaller than us).
We also found (where would we be without the internet?) that the global chicken population was ~19.5 billion birds in 2009 so we would need 31 trillion earths’ worth of chickens to even get a mole of chickens to make our chicken planet a reality.
So let’s fry this chicken planet!
It takes ~1.6 L of canola oil to fry a 6 pound chicken. The volume of the earth’s oceans is 1.34 x 10^21 L. Sooooo a little math later and we find that it’ll take 730 earths’ worth of oceans of canola oil to fry the mighty chicken planet.
Wish you were here.
