The Potato Paradox
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Published 2018-03-26
Nope. 50 pounds -- they’ve lost half their weight! But how? Bust out your burlap potato sack, because Kevin is about to do the dirty work of uncovering the answer to a bizarre veridical paradox that just doesn’t seem to add up. Gravy not included.
** SOURCES ***
Origins of Colorado Potato Beetle: phys.org/news/2018-03-major-potato-pest.html
Colorado Potato Beetle Genome Research and Propaganda History: news.wisc.edu/colorado-potato-beetle-genome-gives-…
Czechoslovakian American Beetle Propaganda Video: • American Bug (English subtitles) Comm...
USDA Food Composition Data: ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/2958?fgcd=&manu=&l…
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All Comments (21)
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Go tell someone that salad is 5% away from being soup.
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Kevin: what's more water than watermelon? Me: water.
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Newborns are 15% away from being soup.
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Famous catchphrases: Michael: Or is it? Kevin: WRONG
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"You must hug your potatoes so that they know that you care." -- Kevin, 2018
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Next time I get asked if I want "soup or salad" I might have an existential crisis...
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Jesus can walk on water, I can walk on Lettuce, Lettuce is 95% water, I am 95% Jesus
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Someone: right? Vsauce: WRONG
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Easier way to explain this. 100lbs and 1% is solid matter. So that's 1lb solid matter. They dry out and now it's 2% solid matter. But still only 1lb. And if 1lb is 2% of the total weight, then the total weight must be 50lb. You don't even have to do the water % math this way to get the same result.
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I always hug my potatoes so that they know I care
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Waiter: soup or salad? Kevin: yes
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The Vsauce paradox: Whenever Vsauce says Right?, It is always wrong.
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“What’s more water than watermelon?” Me: water. “LETTUCE” Me: oh. Right
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But steel is heavier than feathers
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but 1+1 is 2 RIGHT? ‘WrOoOnG’
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Kevin: We are humans right? Me: Rig- Kevin: WRONG
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The potato paradox is how my 10-year old PC can still play modern games...
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Goes to restaurant Waiter "What would you like to drink" Me "Lettuce"
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Kevin : "You must hug your potatoes to show that you care" [3:26] As a person who has gone to Ireland for vacation twice, I can confirm this is why the potatoes there are so high quality
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I feel like he's explaining two separate concepts. First is :- What would be left after 1% evaporates? Removing 1% of 100 lb which would leave almost 99 lb. [Depending if it were by weight or by volume] Second is:- Doubling the solid content from 1% to 2% which would equate to removing 50% of the water content. Those are two separate things.
