And lo on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:44:55 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> did  
spake, saying:

>   Another funny example, which you can use on someone: Assume you have
> a really, really large piece of cardboard which is 1 mm thick. Also  
> assume
> that you can fold it in half as many times as you want (thus doubling its
> thickness each time you fold it). How many times do you have to fold it
> before the thickness reaches the Moon?

31 times to roughly match the length of the UK. 40 times will easily reach  
the Moon and about 58 times to get very close to the Sun. Yeah I was bored.

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Phil Cook

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