Question: is this true, if all chickens on the planet were fried and chopped up, would it fill enough bargain buckets to go to the moon and back three times?

Phillip Wilkinson answered on 18 Mar 2013:

Right…. lets do some chicken based math.

You can chose between 6, 10 and 14 piece bargain bucket. These pieces are either chicken breast or chicken legs. Lets take the 10 piece bargain bucket as the building block for our Earth – Moon fried chicken bridge.To get these 10 pieces, (assuming 5 breasts and 5 legs) you will need 2.5 chickens.

According to the United Nations there are 19 billion chickens in the world. So divided by 2.5 this gives us 7.6 billion chicken filled bargain buckets.

Do not have a bargain bucket to hand, but we shall estimate that a bargain bucket is 20cm tall. So 7.6 billion times by 20 is 152 billion centimeters, or 1 520 000 kilometres.

Now because the moons orbit of the earth is slightly elliptical (like a squashed circle), its distance away from us varies. So we shall be ambitions and take the farthest distance between Earth and the Moon at 406 000 km.

So there we have it! Not only do we have enough chickens to fill sufficient bargain buckets to stack to the moon, we have enough to get there, back again and there once more! You are indeed right, but those poor chickens.