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 Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
As I wield the power to see deleted posts, I'm left to wonder why you would think you could lift the belt as high as you could by having your hands 1 foot apart. Seems like you'd manage lifting highest if you lifted at essentially one point on the belt.
If the belt was wrapped tightly around the earth, (IE you couldn't get your finger underneath the belt before the growth of the belt), you still wouldn't be able to get your fingers under the belt
Circumference of a circle is pi(r). If we say that R is 1 unit, we need to figure out what 6 feet looks like when compared to 3.14 units R when R is 50% of the width of the earth.
2r = 2726.41 miles
therefore R = 1363.205 miles
R converted to feet when there 5280 feet in a mile. = 7197722.4 feet
therefore pi(r) = 22611644.9196
We'll round up.
To find out the percentage of feet we are adding to the band, we take 6 feet and devide by pi(r) 6/22611645 = .000000265% (You technically get to multiply this number by 2, becuase while the bottom half will be taught, everything above the equator where you're lifting the ball, will be trying to pull away from the sphere. Which is ultimately the problem.
Because of the way space distributes over the curvature of a sphere, and because of the amount of distance being covered, 6 feet doesn't mean bupkiss.
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