1 post in the last hour and it's "how much does a cornflake weigh?
We're going with "1 gram" btw
According to Einstein's famous formula, (E=Mc², or energy = mass times the speed of light squared,) you would need 8.98755179 × 10^13 joules of energy to make a cornflake exist out of pure energy alone.*
*if I got my maths right
Energy (in jules) required to create a cornflake out of thin air: 89,875,517,873,681.77
Energy (in joules) output by 1 cornflake: 16,000
Therefore, according to Einstein, you would need 5,617,219,867.10511 cornflakes to make 1 cornflake
Now never talk to me about cornflakes again!
@Ivafakename I love how cornflakes were a total accident because kellogg was a massive fundie weirdo and made branflakes to try and stop people masturbating (like I said, he was hyper religious) but some of the corn went off and they used it anyway and it turned out it was delicious so his brother went "holy crap we can make money off this instead of feeding gross bland tripe to people" and sold it against the main dude's wishes and he threw a hissy fit?
@Ivafakename Sorta? But also not. basically, John Harvey Kellogg ran a sanitarium, he firmly believed spicy or sweet foods would "increase passions" or some such, but yeah the strict diet he imposed at his sanitarium was all bland foods. entirely.
His younger brother left some cooked wheat to sit out while they attended some pressing matters, so it went stale, but due to the strict budget they forced it through the rollers, wanting to obtain long sheets of dough. Instead, they got flakes.
@Ivafakename They toasted these, and served it, and then it turns out they were SUPER friggin popular because they actually tasted pretty good. Dr Kellogg did market it hoping it would reduce dyspepsia and masturbation/sexual appetite, but uh, haha.
Then Will who was the business manager, went ahead and mass marketed it, adding sugar to make it more palatable, but then of course Dr Kellogg was pissed because "AAAAAH TEH SINNNNNNNNNINNNGGGGG".
Will didn't give two figs tho :3
@Ivafakename so basically because Dr Kellogg was a hyper-religious dip, nobody bloody remembers him, but Will Kellogg basically went on to make a hugely successful breakfast cereal company and made shittons
@Nine okay, so they were meant to stop sin, but actually did nothing?
And then they invented tony the tiger and, well...
@Ivafakename Let the Sin Begin :3
@Nine wait what? I thought cornflakes stopped masturbation, not bran flakes?