Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it

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Often we come to mind crazy and bold ideas. And on their heads and they do not go away in 99 percent of cases. But not for the Reddit user under the nickname wallacemk, that playing with matches (admit it, we all do), has decided to implement a crazy idea.

Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it

It happened all of a year ago. "I have spent on it 10 months and about $ 500 (almost 29 thousand rubles)." Glue them was very laborious and difficult work, but it did not stop the craftsmen from the final stage of the project - the burning.

Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it

"Once, fooling around and playing with matches when he thought that the head of the matches a little more than straw. I wondered what would happen if I started to glue them together and do not stop. I imagined the scope and decided to find out. "

Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it

"When I started, I was wondering how many matches, at least roughly, I would need. Bought in boxes of 300 pieces in a conventional grocery store (they probably think I'm crazy). And in order to understand how in the end will look like my field, I used the program for three-dimensional modeling Rhino ".

Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it

"I used the angle of 0, 82 degrees to find a circle that create matches based on their shape. According to the program, if all matches have the same shape (and is not), I would get a circle, consisting of 439 matches, a diameter of 17, 643 inches (44 centimeters 81322). The surface area of ​​the sphere can be found using equation 4πr2 and since r = 8, 8215 inches obtain 977, 405 square inches. Our matches occupy about 0, 0156 square inches of the surface, so 977, 405 square inches / 0, 0156 square inches = 62 654 matches in an ideal world. "

Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it

A quarter of a sphere.

Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it

"The beginning of the bonding process. The photo was taken at the time of optimism and excitement. My theory worked and my hack finally began to take shape. "

Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it

Then craftsman already realized how much is actually time and effort it will take.

Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it

"The result is not perfect, of course, a circle, but it still looks great."

Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it

"Save all the empty boxes to see how in the end it took. It turned out exactly 140 boxes. If each box was really 300 matches, it was equal to 42 thousand matches. And it is very different from my evaluation of 62 654. To promote this can many factors: an inaccurate number of matches in each box, maybe I did not create a perfect sphere (actually, it is), and, perhaps, matches were all different sizes ( and there is). Nevertheless, 20 thousand a bit much for the error. "

Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it

"And that's what we get. It turned out not quite match the green green. All it took me 10 months. But it was worth it. "

Guy year pasted the scope of the 42 thousands of matches, and then burned it

It should be done.

After watching the video, we can not escape the nagging feeling that it was the most pointless spent 10 months in a person's life. And how are you?