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I was really hoping he was going to convert the amount of energy needed into calories, then from calories into peanuts butter sandwiches

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1 calorie is interchangeable for approximately 4.1868 joules. Therefore, assuming his math was correct (many say it was not), I’m coming up with 2,687,016,337 calories needed. According to google, sourcing from the USDA, your average peanut butter sandwich has 384 calories. Therefore you’d be expending approximately 6,997,438 peanut butter sandwiches worth of energy to punt the ungrateful little shit into the sun.

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384 cal or 384 kcal per sandwich?

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Same.

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Cut the extra inch off the long side to get a 4" square, then cut the remaining 1" x 4" piece into 4 1" squares. The boy never said the squares had to be the same size.

If the triangles have already been cut, it’s a peanut butter sandwich: use peanut butter on the edges to glue it back together and cut the squares. The child gave you a challenge, think outside the box!

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i’d cut squares out of the triangles.

Once the kid realizes he’s getting less because of his demands, he might change his mind about shape being important.

Edit: or make him do it. toss in a lesson about geometry, too.

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If the triangles have already been cut, the kid gets a brand new sandwich fully intact, crust and all, and a knife. Let’s see you cut this sandwich better than I can brayxtyn

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If that’s the child’s name, you have no one to blame but yourself, and are probably underqualified for handling a butter knife.

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I’m partial to Brexit for my first childs name.

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4 points

Parent’s already thinking outside the biosphere.

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Why does it have to be a kick? Could I generate that force with a car? It weighs a lot more so I assume the speed wouldn’t need to be nearly as high.

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The request was to “launch”, so I’d say a railgun would also be an acceptable answer, having much lower acceleration values, as you could just accelerate the son continuously, over the distance of the barrel.
500m should be good enough, no?

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Surely they’re not so mad that they need to kick their child into the sun. I’m sure a low solar orbit would suffice.

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or

heavier foot

tape + brick

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