lol. Fascinating responses! I&#39;m taking notes ;)<br><br><div>Wearing my hat as a torturer-for-the-moment, here are some of the unstated assumptions in some of the responses:</div><div><br></div><div>- distances b/w earth and moon include distances to the center of each body, but the ant will walk from the surface of the earth to the surface of the moon.</div>

<div><br></div><div>- the moon rotates around the earth in an elliptical orbit (not a circular one) so the distance from earth to moon varies.</div><div><br></div><div>- ants don&#39;t normally walk with a steady velocity, they seem to move in fits and starts</div>

<div><br></div><div>Saidi</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Jared Koyier <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jaredkoyier@gmail.com">jaredkoyier@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

A jet going at 1000km/hr would take 16days to get to the moon. At<br>
1inch/sec any ant(lifespan=90days) will never get there.However shud<br>
this be a software ant and assuming that  1pixel=600km so that there<br>
are 650linear pixels btn earth and the moon then an ant reduced by<br>
same pixel factor would take 90mil steps<br>
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On 04/01/2010, Odhiambo Washington &lt;<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:29 PM, saidimu apale &lt;<a href="mailto:saidimu@gmail.com">saidimu@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; Happy New Year y&#39;all.<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; While prepping for an interview with Google I briefly fantasized myself as<br>
&gt;&gt; the torturer (interviewer), not the tortured (interviewee). So I came up<br>
&gt;&gt; with this ridiculous puzzle, any takers?<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; - How many steps would an ant require to walk to the moon (assuming a<br>
&gt;&gt; string attached from earth to the moon)?<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Hehee... Have a winch mounted on the moon to roll up  the string, hoisting<br>
&gt; the perched ant in a single step, no? I am just thinking...<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; --<br>
&gt; Best regards,<br>
&gt; Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>
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