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daniel1116 189 points ago +192 / -3

I love this.

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magastrophysicist 330 points ago +330 / -0

Twinkies in the 1980s when Ghostbusters came out came in a box of ten individually-wrapped cakes. The net weight was 15 ounces, so the weight per Twinkie was

  • 42.52 grams or 0.04252 kg

An enlarged Twinkie should preserve the shape of a regular Twinkie, and should be made of the same proportion of ingredients, so a Twinkie that is 250,000 times larger should weigh

  • (0.04252 kg)(2.5e5) = 10631.1 kg = 23437 lb

Furthermore, a Twinkie in the 1980s was approximately four inches long, or 10.16 cm. The weight per unit length of a regular Twinkie is thus

  • (0.04252 kg) / (0.1016 m) = 0.4185 kg/m

Thus, the length of an engorged Twinkie, preserving the average linear mass density calculated above should be

  • (10631.1 kg) / (0.4185 kg/m) = 25403 m = 15.78 miles

So, this engorged Twinkie weighing 23,437 lb and covering over 15 city blocks is almost as big as Rosie O'Donnell.

Sincerely,

Your local based astrophysicist