This comment is gold (no pun intended if the coin was a canadian dollar).

Best comments ever in the history of Humankind.

Fucking take my thumbs up, I genuinely laughed out loud.

This is my kinda joke 😂

You’ve won the internet!!!! Brilliant 😂😂😂😂

Haha. Lets figure that out for Mars.

THAT part wasn't faked.

more believable than nasa

SHHHHHH!!! You know you could be killed for releasing that information! Next time you drive your car check the brakes!

🤣

That's a good way to get slapped

@@Jeremy.Bearemy Lol. He learned a good lesson on wording that day.

Roasted! 🔥🔥

But made no attempt to stop you and clarify?

@@gnamp Not really. I don't remember why

- Mr Myagi

Binary Agenda moon.. 48times.. sun 54 times....

@@Bibibosh If you take a piece of paper .25 mm thick and fold it in half 100 times, the stack will be larger than the visible universe: About 16.7 BILLION *light years* tall.

JustWasted3HoursHere ..... is that where buzz lightyear lives?

@@Bibibosh Actually, he's from the Gamma Quadrant, Sector 4. :)

Binary Agenda: come on don't bullshit me.

Mate, watched it too, and I am still trying figure out how many I need to reach the moon hahah

Lmao. You brits and your "tellie" (tubbies)

Can you tell how old is that show is

@@kapa8514 Yes I can, I was about eight or nine when this episode aired. I'm 53 now. So, about 45 years ago.

@@HingleCringle Australia, mate.

They did that on myth busters… j/s we got it.. slow down grandpa

@@christopheranton9258 it's cancelled

I watched a lot of backyard science in 2000s

@@christopheranton9258 Who needs scientists when we have reality show actors. 😂😂😂

@@O-.-O define scientist, homie... looks to me like the dudes at mythbusters would fit that description...

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@@CuriosityShow 49 actually!

@@CuriosityShow you did it

yes of course

Very kind of you, and keep subscribed at kzfaq.info for new stuff each week - Rob

Funny thing as soon as I saw the What Is It part, I knew it was short animal fur since I've studied what it looks like in order to paint fur convincingly. Otherwise, I might not have.

I was like Is that a cat

Bill Nye is now a woke soy boy teaching kids that there’s no biology behind gender 🤷🏼‍♀️

@@djberryhardkore Maybe listen to him then. He’s a smart man.

Back then as kids we did, and week seemed like a year ^^

Uphill both ways too? In the snow

When did this show aired?

@@kingsly1031 sometime between 1972-1990.

@@kingsly1031 I was watching it as a kid in the early 80s... the show ran from 1972 to 1990

problem??

uh the bible paper is thinner that tissue paper

@@fruitguy7731 who will do the unthinkable

• buy a big bag for all the money

Forget the Moon, Elon will just fold his paper 200 times!

Thanks. Curiosity Show was a national science program featuring Dr Rob Morrison and Dr Deane Hutton. It was made in Adelaide, South Australia and screened nationally in Australia as well as in Europe, Asia and Australasia (14 countries and dubbed in German for Europe) from 1972-1990. Deane and Rob intentionally used everyday items around the house (like old rusty cans) so that people could repeat the demonstrations with materials they had to hand. In 1984 Curiosity Show won the Prix Jeunesse International, the world's top award for TV programs for young people. Rob and Deane are steadily uploading segments at kzfaq.info Why not subscribe?

And cameras to film it. It's almost as if this entire charade was intended as some kind of... broadcast. Sus as hell if you ask me.

Yeah they did it 11 times

thanks :o i guessed 55

Hmmm yes yes ofcourse, yes 54

Congratulations on trying to explain to somebody like me that cannot fathom this.

@AndrewWithEase11 11 sure dude. Ofc you did.

@AndrewWithEase11 11 sure bro, whatever, insulting me isn’t gonna make ur story any more believable. U do realise that a 0.1mm thick piece of paper (basically the thinnest tissue paper), folded in half 20 times will be 104,857mm thick or ~105 meters thick? So that would be ~52.5 meters thick at 19 folds and so in order to fold it again it would need to be over 2x as long (I can’t really remember how much longer, I think it may have been 4x, but I’m not sure) so likely over a hundred meters and as the length will double for every fold you undo, that will be an insanely long piece of paper to start with. Now do you realise why I don’t believe you? If a group of highschool students could only fold a 1.2km long piece of tissue paper 12 times, I very highly doubt that you with some water, even with a hydraulic press, could fold paper 20 times. But sure, if you wanna claim that you have, go ahead.

@AndrewWithEase11 11 I will point out that the same student was able to get 12 folds with a much smaller piece of gold foil (4” by 4”), she was able to do this because the gold foil is incredibly thin. So if you had a 0.12 micron thick sheet of gold foil (0.00012 mm) and you were rich enough to have a massive sheet of it, you could easily beat 12 folds. But with paper, you aren’t gonna beat 12 folds unless you name ot get your hands on a sheet of paper over 2.4km long and 0.1mm thick and manage to fold it 13 times.

@SumTingFishy you really live up to the name of your profile lol xD Anyone makes a claim thats too good to be true, you destroy them with facts. Amazing stuff

@@larajanesen8795 lol thanks

That tissue paper is thinner than the 'football field size parachute paper' mythbusters used. And also the tissue paper can leak air. Mythbusters did folded it, 11 times actually, using steamroll..🤣

Mythbusters actually proved that you CAN get more folds if you double the initial size of the paper. So theoretically, you have a limitless amount of folds if you can simply make the paper larger.

@@drewgwins6073 i think we were watching different episodes. i recall that it didn't matter the size. i might have to watch again.

Yeah saw that too, was kinda surprised he hit 9 folds no trouble

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJuBrcZkxLTYd6c.html Here's 10+ folds. Friends and fork lift assisted.

Hilarious. 😂

Next time try one back on him: tell him you can prove 4 - 1 = 5. Take a piece of paper with 4 corners and fold or even better cut one off. You now have 5 corners, 4 - 1 = 5.

Was a mirror involved when you did the trick?

They're still working on it today...

54 to the sun or what? Because that would've actually been my guess!

@@ggdk2865 yes, 54 is past the sun

48 folds to moon is incorrect using their stated 0.01 mm paper thickness. The correct answer is 45.1 folds. Back calculating shows they used a paper thickness of 0.001 mm to arrive at 48 folds. The 384,000 km to moon is correct. The thinnest paper around is 0.02 mm, double their stated thickness, and nowhere close to 0.001 mm needed to arrive at 48 folds.

​@@sarz24241 that's what i said, 45 folds would be just short.

This kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdqSlsSI09_Gqqc.html

You were a smart kid 😁

BRILLIANT !

Siren Hound Nice one!

Government spoils all of our fun! :-)

Oh, is it because they are made out of plastic?

@@ABW941 Our one and two dollar notes were replaced by coins. Interesting fact: The Australian two dollar coin is smaller than the one dollar coin.

@@gorillaau Our 50 Eurocent are larger than our 1 Euro coin.

How long did it take him to fold paper that long?

@@jgt_ I don't think Jude's question was whether it was a her or a him.

@@jgt_ From your lack luster answer it sounds like you were :)

@@jgt_ lol lacklustre

@@rattiusr6418 L

Freal?

Yup!

Each time you fold it in half, you’re doubling the number of layers of paper that you’re trying to fold. After 9 successful folds, you have 512 layers of paper. You’re basically trying to fold a ream of paper that’s the size of a postage stamp. Mythbusters showed that if you start with a large enough sheet of paper (like 20 feet on a side or something ridiculous) you could fold it more than 10 times, but not much more.

@@johnbode5528 , the exponential increase is a good point. It's interesting to learn that someone else reached a limit of "more than 10": my recollection from childhood is of a large sheet of thin paper and just barely getting to eleven folds.

@@johnbode5528 , thinking more about it for a moment just now, I realize that the limit comes from a combination of factors: (1) the number of resulting layers (2) the ratio between the thickness of the paper and its area (3) the stiffness of the folded edges and the fact that the challenge is to make each new fold perpendicular to the one just before it (4) human strength. It is easy enough to fold in half a thousand-page (500-leaf) phonebook, if the axis of the folding is perpendicular to the spine. This is partly because you're not trying to fold the spine, not trying to make it half as long. It's also because the paper of a phonebook is thin enough that the resulting stack of pages is not *terribly* thick-and the pages are wide enough, in relation to the thickness of this stack and its rigidity, you can get enough leverage to use your hands to achieve the fold. The required alternation between horizontal and vertical folds is a big part. It's easy to put dozens of folds into a piece of paper if most of them are parallel to one another and only a few are perpendicular to the first parallel set: witness the folding of a typical paper map! And I bet that a strong enough machine could force more alternating horizontal and vertical folds. Maybe a machine strong enough to counter the resistance of the paper would end up tearing the paper. And I wonder whether one can go further with fabric, whose fibers can be much longer than those of paper.

Someone once wrote an entire paper on this very topic and put forth a mathematical proof on how to achieve more possible folds than what has always been considered an absolute limit and then demonstrated such taking the record for most folds in a piece of paper. Sorry my memory doesn't serve to offer any more details but I did want anyone still reading these comments to know there is a woman somewhere out there that took her math seriously and this paper folding even more so with an astonishing payoff!

@@kylejohnson150 Her name was Britney Gallivan if you want to read about her again.

Thanks, we are - Rob

@@CuriosityShow Awesome!!!!

Wasn't it the size of a tennis court??

@@geoninja8971 bigger I think, they had to do it in a hangar. Just search mythbusters paper fold.

The Best Stooge they didn’t do it 48 times.

@RDV RDV Took them a HUGE piece to start with as well. No human hands can do it.

Also special paper

I thought they only folded it 8 times though? Not 10... never mind, just watched it, they did 11

@schr4nz kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obhxeKWT1NrZeXk.html they did it to 11.

Neither. I suspect it belonged to our producer of the time, Ian, who had two boxers - Rob

Very large indeed, needs to have enough mass to cover for the whole trip. But nobody said the original paper had to have a certain size.

In order to end up with a column of paper that reaches the moon with a cross section 1cm x 1cm, you would need to start with a square piece of paper that is 167.77 km on each side. That is a little larger than the size of Massachusetts. Every two times you fold your square you end up with another square that has sides half the length of the previous. So the starting size is 2^24 cm. In order to reach the Sun (54 folds), you would need a piece that is 2^27 cm x 2^27 cm. That's about the size of Alaska.

@@SergioCastillo87 the first

That's more like the version of this puzzle that I'm familiar with. How many times can you tear a paper in half, stack it, halve it, stack it, etc. 7 times max.

@@vendingdudes I've honestly never heard of that variation before. Only the folding one

Give your address. I'm sending you a coin!

There’s a Mythbusters on that, isn’t there?

@@theKobus yes and when a giant piece

Right?!? Like the sheet of gold on the James Webb Space Telescope. I think the sheet is like 1 micron thick or something crazy. Basically a golf ball size ball of gold covering a tennis court.

@@MagicScorpio some girl got 12 folds by using a a bunch of tissue paper a decade ago. Imagine if she had the telescope gold foil.

He doesn’t need to go thinner, just bigger

They never stated you could never fold *any* paper 10 times, just the papers he provided.

@Atheist Dingo still counts!

However, this was done in the 80s, when did Mythbusters push the envelope to reach their goal?

@Atheist Dingo Sure it does! The exercise states "you can't fold a piece of paper more than ten times". It doesn't say "you can't fold a piece of paper more than ten times, and you're not allowed to use any tools, and the paper has to be small, and the paper has to be very thick, etc etc." If you like, we could stack on more and more restrictions until the exercise is altogether impossible!

@@Maninawig I'll Grant you it took place many years later. Nevertheless, it has been done

Then they'd get that giant paper, but not his dollar!

His fourth GOLD after the DOG? Wtf are you on about, mate?

You are not wrong! - Rob

Crazy episode. This page prompted me to rewatch it. They got 11 folds, and it took a football size piece of paper, a steam roller, and a forklift to complete it.