You have 1000 kilograms of clean, fresh water in a single IBC container in Sydney at the Opera house. You will be paid 1 million dollars if you can deliver it to Los Angeles McArthur Park within 3 weeks, or 21 days, or 504 hours. You can split the water into as many containers as you want, and the IBC doesn’t need to make it to LA, just the water inside. If you deliver 2000 bottles each containing 500ml of undiluted, clean, fresh water, or like, 99% of it to account for evaporation and some spillage, that counts as a win. You can assume that any partial water deliveries that remain in Sydney or arrive in LA won’t be stolen in your absence so you don’t need to hire guards. There are no consequences for failing, but if you do fail or succeed, any money you spend on the project, you don’t get refunded. Normal consequences for breaking laws apply.

How do you do it, or do you even bother trying?

  • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
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    8 days ago

    I filled an 800 litre hot tub up in abiut 2.5 hours.

    1000 litres won’t take long.

    Although you also have to account for distance…

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      4 days ago

      I just did the numbers - looks like you’ll need around 120 days to fill the hose with one of the biggest commercially available pumps I could find.

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      8 days ago

      Fill it by a 12000km long 2cm wide tube. Do not underestimate the pressure needed to get a reasonable flow. Ever tried soak up honey with a straw?