Analog horror is when someone throws 3078 VHS tapes onto the subway track shutting down the New York Subway for 2 hours
No, but it could happen one day
vhs tapes are two US dollars at goodwill. 3078 vhs tapes would be 6156 US dollars. given that one goodwill location probably doesn't have that many of anything, you'd need to visit a lot of locations. each goodwill location has 10-20 vhs tapes. minimum of $20 per location, and a maximum of 308 locations.
there are only 42 goodwill locations in the new york area, meaning you would need to visit each location 7-8 times to get all the vhs tapes. if you wait two weeks between trips, that'd be 16 weeks total (I'm not including travel time because I feel like you could use that time traveling).
each tape has a volume of 29.6 cubic inches (79.184 cubic centimeters). that makes a combined total of 91,108.8 cubic inches (231416.352 cubic meters).
10 ton crane tilt truck can carry 70 cubic meters of cargo weighing up to 9.55 tons. the vhs tapes weigh a total of about 0.663 tons, well under the limit. you would need 3,306 trucks to carry all the vhs tapes. side by side, that would create a line of trucks 758.88 meters long.
because it would be really hard to get three thousand trucks into a subway, I would opt for the train. the longest straight section of train line in new york is 70 miles (112.65 kilometers). which is big enough for all our trucks!
our result is a really long, really big pile of vhs tapes across the new york central line that would really inconvenience a lot of people.
I appreciate the math but how do you need more trucks than there are tapes to throw a bunch of tapes on the subway
I'm really bad at math
Ahh, thank you
