Chuck asks: What is the airspeed velocity of a coconut-laden swallow?
Chuck is referring to a quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail but he got the quote slightly wrong. According to IMDB, it's actually:
What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
I'm going to assume that that's the question that you really wanted an answer to, and not surprisingly, some geeks on the internet have calculated an answer. The most famous of these answers was written by Jonathan Corum and uses some complex math. Follow the link for all the details but his answer boils down to 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.
Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/quotes
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
Chuck is referring to a quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail but he got the quote slightly wrong. According to IMDB, it's actually:
What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
I'm going to assume that that's the question that you really wanted an answer to, and not surprisingly, some geeks on the internet have calculated an answer. The most famous of these answers was written by Jonathan Corum and uses some complex math. Follow the link for all the details but his answer boils down to 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.
Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/quotes
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
posted by Cindy at 6:04 PM
1 Comments:
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