As fascinating as it is seemingly irrelevant

I love teasers like this. It is as fascinating as it is seemingly irrelevant. Hidden in there is some insight that likely is useful in very specific contexts, but you have to work to dig out that nugget. Meanwhile, you are left with the staggering improbability of the statement.

If you have a rope long enough to wrap around the entire circumference of the globe, the rope is 24,901.55 miles long. If you want to lengthen the rope so that it can hover 1 foot off the ground at all points on Earth, it takes just 6.28 feet more of rope https://t.co/KdFoCxalj6 pic.twitter.com/WmqAm1SAqf

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 10, 2020