How about that?

Posted by Michaelson from leospace047.utsi.edu on June 23, 2000 at 13:36:45:

In Reply to: Here it is: you will have to click on the top link once you get here posted by Dale Dassel on June 23, 2000 at 03:08:29:

: www.greenspun.com/com/generalchemistryonline/measurement/faq/indiana-jones.shtml

: : :
: : : On one of my internot forays, I discovered THIS:
: : : Follow this URL to a website where some professor actually figured
: : : out how much sand Indy would have had to use to correctly defeat
: : : the mechanism in the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors!
: : : I can't believe people actually go to this extent to prove something!

: : : http://antoine.frostberg.edu/chem/senese/101/measurement/faq/indiana-jones.shtml

What's really interesting is that the folks who bantered this around now and again here at the forum came to the same conclusions, except without the specific weight densities comparison between sand and gold. Otherwise, we came to the same conclusions. Neat! Regards. Michaelson

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