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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
 Posted - 10/29/2007 : 19:56:33
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http://www.freerice.com/index.php
Enjoy!
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 20:33:40 [Permalink]
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| Oh hey, that's fun. Only I kept getting sent back from level 39 or level 38. Duh! Next time I will cheat for, you know...the good of the world. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 20:54:07 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
So how many people will 42 million grains of rice feed for a day?
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Me.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 21:03:44 [Permalink]
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| okay, made it to 42 before getting sent back... I was at 40 last time but didn't know it. Seems the numbers don't show up until you hit 40, I think... Anyhow, here I thought I had a decent vocabulary. Sigh... |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 21:07:57 [Permalink]
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| I got up to level 45 before I stopped at 500 grains. I'll go back and see if I can feed even one person for a day, later. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 21:18:48 [Permalink]
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| Okay, I just got to level 50 at 550 grains. I was up to 48 at 400 grains, but then things went to hell for a little bit before I got back on track. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 21:24:41 [Permalink]
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| You shame me Dave. By the way, the site says that very few people make it past level 48... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 21:25:15 [Permalink]
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At the start of the game, it gives you four words before assigning a starting level (mine has always been 40). After that, for every three you get right, it bumps you up a level (and a single wrong answer bumps you down a level). So one could theoretically get to level 50 (hardest) in only 34 words (340 grains).
I now have a goal. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 21:46:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
You shame me Dave. |
That's why you made me what I am today, Kil.| By the way, the site says that very few people make it past level 48... |
Yeah, and I was struggling with them, desperately trying to remember Latin roots and guessing as to whether something sounded more like an adjective than a noun.
But I think I see a pattern. I don't want to give it away just yet. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 21:52:14 [Permalink]
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| Got to 1,000 grains and I was all over the place. Must be the fact that it's one AM and my eyes are trying to shut. |
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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
1266 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 22:06:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by Kil
By the way, the site says that very few people make it past level 48... |
Yeah, and I was struggling with them, desperately trying to remember Latin roots and guessing as to whether something sounded more like an adjective than a noun. |
Me too, but I had trouble staying above 42....I didn't have the patience (or the vocabulary, I guess) to keep trying up to 50.
| But I think I see a pattern. I don't want to give it away just yet. |
I see it too:
Nearly all of those words are in the dictionary! |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2007 : 23:10:57 [Permalink]
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I get to 48 or 49, then it hits me with a word I think I know, but none of the choices are it. Pesky words with multiple definitions...
And often it throws out a word that I have no idea... frowzy? wtf?
Fun way to spend a few minutes, even if it doesn't really add up to enough food to feed anyone.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2007 : 08:18:15 [Permalink]
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Okay, finding precise data on the worldwide average daily caloric requirement is tough, and I've seen local (countrywide) values ranging from 2,000 kcal to 2,500 kcal, but mostly in the high 2,100s. Let's use a value of 2,200 kcal.
Rice has 360 kcal per 100 grams, so an average person could be fed on 612 g of rice. If the mass of one grain of rice is 25 mg, then one person can eat decently with 24,480 grains of rice, or 2,448 questions.
I did a little over 1,000 grains last night, and so donated perhaps 4% of one person's dietary needs for a day.
The 48,720,340 grains donated yesterday would feed about 1,990 people for one day, or five-and-a-half people for a year.
Time to learn a lot of vocabulary...
(And, of course, none of this counts micronutrients not found in rice.) |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 11/01/2007 : 09:37:08 [Permalink]
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So I answered a whole bunch wrong to get down to level 1. Typical word:few means:
speedy
bad
terrific
not many And I just now found out that if you answer the first four wrong, you'll start at level 1. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 11/01/2007 : 13:44:48 [Permalink]
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Damn monitor exploded, broken glass, smoking electronics, buckets of rice up to my ass! You and your fucking games.
I did see on the commodities market that rice futures went up over 200% about six or seven hours after I started! |
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