Contest: Win free food and drink to Sunday's Justice League of Street Food industry pool party

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Lori Midson

Winner announcement: blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2012/08/winner_pool_party_justice_league.php

With the mercury continuing to hover in high double digits -- and a three-day weekend upon us -- most of us will be picnicking and boozing it up in a park, or splashing around in the pool, diving for beer cans.

And on Sunday, you can knock back beers, eat your heart out and bare your bikini at the Justice League of Street Food's water splash bash, which kicks off at 5 p.m. poolside at TAXI, 3509 Ringsby Court.

But this isn't just any aquatic playground (or party): The container pool, boasting twelve-foot decks on either side, was constructed using two, forty-foot-long, re-purposed steel shipping containers that were welded together and then painted bright orange. In other words, this is definitely not your average park pool.

But on Sunday, it'll be part of the festivities at the Justice League soiree, which, as usual, will parade a diverse mix of food trucks and carts, including the Yatai food cart, DipStik, the Panna Cotta Peddler, Pinche Tacos, Mana from Heaven and Biker Jim's.

And that's not all: There's volleyball, a deck bar, music, a hula-hoop showdown, kid's activities and contests, and, if you work in the restaurant biz, you'll get a free shot to start the night.

But even if you're not in the industry, you can still eat and drink for free on Sunday by simply participating in our little contest.

Here's what we want to know: How much does all that water weigh, in pounds, in the pool?

Here's a hint: The pool is eighty feet long and seven-and-a-half feet wide, and the depth varies between three-and-a-half feet and eight feet

The person who comes the closest to the correct number without going over (the edge) will get the prize. Please submit your guesses in the comment section below, and make sure to leave a valid e-mail address so we can contact you if you win.

We'll announce the winner this evening, by 5:30 p.m.




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cdt325
cdt325

My guess is 207,000 lbs. for the pools current weight... I want to win some street food!! cdt325@gmail.com

evans13_ech
evans13_ech

My guess of the pool's current weight is 209,000.       evans13_ech@yahoo.com

 

randall.smock
randall.smock like.author.displayName 1 Like

I just want some Pinche Tacos.....

DonkeyHotay
DonkeyHotay topcommenter

 @randall.smock  ... so tell us, exactly, how you came up with an answer that is more than 3x the maximum possible weight of the volume of water given?

 

Be specific, and show your work.

 

FrenchPressMemos
FrenchPressMemos

From TAXI POOL: The calculations we have received are consistent with the answer provided - I would never personally venture to calculate or pretend like I understand why and how this works but that is the answer we received from the structural engineer that we worked with on the pool. The caveat to the calculations ... the actual dimension for the water is full depth of the container--9-10'. There is a ledger that made out of the former tops of the containers that creates a false bottom at the depths quoted in the article but the containers are full to capacity. The ledger provides the structural support for the pool to keep it from expanding out. Hope this clears matters a bit. See you on Sunday IN THE POOL!

DonkeyHotay
DonkeyHotay topcommenter

 @FrenchPressMemos 

 

HipTip: If your basic math skills are worse than a 5th grader, you might reconsider whether you're competent to run a business, especially one where unbelievably retarded adults could drown in a volume of water they are too stupid to calculate.

 

Even with your altered and increased height of 9 ft, the maximum volume of water is 5400 cubic feet making the maximum possible weight of water 337,068 lbs.

 

It's BASIC MATH -- Length x Width x Height = Volume of a Rectangular Box

 

At 62,42 lbs / cubic foot of water, the MAXIMUM weight is 337,068 lbs, and that's with a 9 foot depth the entire 80 ft length.

 

The sloping bottom from 3.5 feet down will yield a volume / weight significantly LESS than that.

 

You + Lori + Taxi Pool + your "engineer" = Pathetic Fail!

 

 

 

 

 

Jon_S
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Hate to say it, but the Donkey is right about the max being under 300,000 pounds. The pool consists of two standard 40 foot containers welded together. 40 foot containers have a volume of around 2,390 cubic feet. Take that times 2 and you have a max volume of 4780 cubic feet. 1 cubic foot of water weighs 62.42796 lbs. 4780 x 62.42796 = 298,405 lbs. That is the theoretical maximum if there was no slope. If you assume it evenly slopes from 3.5 to 8 feet you get an average depth of 5.75 feet (8 + 3.5 = 11.5 / 2 = 5.75). The calc would then be 80 x 7.5 x 5.75 x 62.42796 = 215,376. That was the answer I had, but I saw swinginstyle already posted that exact number so I deleted it. swinginstyle should probably be the winner.

DonkeyHotay
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 @Jon_S 

 

Food Critic =/= Math Critic

 

If the slope were even, from 3.5ft to 8ft, with no flat and lesser sloping bottom at all, your calculation would be correct. 

 

But the photo clearly shows that the shallow bottom does not begin an immediate taper, instead appearing to be an arbitrary shallow depth for quite some distance before tapering off to the deeper end, so the volume / weight would have to be less than the slope=1 assumption.

 

And as someone else pointed out, the pool is not filled to the brim, so again the volume is diminished even further.

 

There simply isn't enough information about the bottom shape/slope to provide anything but a gross approximation based upon naked assumtions.

 

But any guess over 300,000 lbs is impossible.

 

Lori should award ** EVERYONE ** who guessed anywhere near the range of 140,000 up to 216,000 to be FAIR.

 

Is Lori fair ?

 

 

raquel63
raquel63

400,000 raquel@guuzen.com

DonkeyHotay
DonkeyHotay topcommenter

 @raquel63 Even it it were filled with Heavy Water -- deuterium oxide -- and it were 8 feet deep the entire 80 ft length, it could only weigh a maximum of ~ 330,000 lbs.

 

DonkeyHotay
DonkeyHotay topcommenter

140,520 lbs

 

2251 cubic feet, making necessary -- but unknown -- assumptions about the slope and duration of the depths.

sub4
sub4

214,570

sub@isaveeverything.com

ajalbert782
ajalbert782

215,507 lbs

 

ajalbert782@gmail.com

thespot84
thespot84

287,000 lbs

 

wolach at gmail.com

 

And Lori, if I win, could you let me know where to go this time? :P

lizvacco
lizvacco

214,567

lizvacco AT gmail.com

 

ab31382
ab31382

286,848 pounds ab31382@yahoo.com

aktorvik
aktorvik

Assuming an even slant from the shallow end to the deep end, it's 215,335 lbs.

 

BTW, the pool where I grew up wasn't an even slant, but it also wasn't made out of a shipping container. Or bright orange. Another reason I heart Denver.

DonkeyHotay
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 @aktorvik No, an even slant of 45 degrees from one end to the other would yield a weight of  1/2 of what it would be if the whole pool were 8 feet deep.

 

8 feet deep all the way would yield a water weight of 299,649 lbs

 

Half that would be 149,824 lbs -- 80 x 7.5 x 8 x 62.427 / 2 

 

But from the photo, the bottom appears to be 3.5 feet deep for about 50% of the length, before tapering down to the 8 foot depth, so Lori doesn't give enough info to calculate an exact volume/weight.

aktorvik
aktorvik

Oh, I'm aktorvik(at)gmail.com. Please and thank you.

AD20
AD20 like.author.displayName 1 Like

173,837 lbs angeladeath@gmail dot com

selizabethroth
selizabethroth

800,000

yellow_howdy@hotmail.com

DonkeyHotay
DonkeyHotay topcommenter like.author.displayName 1 Like

 @selizabethroth The most it could weigh, if it were 8 feet deep the entire 80 foot length, is 300,000 lbs.

94cubuff
94cubuff

214963 lbs

cocubfan@gmail.com

jeanice.rae
jeanice.rae

201,330 lbs or 100 tonsjeanicerae (AT) yahoo 

randall.smock
randall.smock

and to cut out the chance that I am over:

assuming 25 degrees centigrade:

 

(integrate 80*7.5 x dx from x=3.5 to 8)*62.244= 966338 lbs

smockrw(AT)nebulousity(DOT)com

LoriMidsonCafeSociety
LoriMidsonCafeSociety moderator editortopcommenter

 @randall.smock Well done! You win! @DonkeyHotay Ha!

DonkeyHotay
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 @LoriMidsonCafeSociety  @randall.smock 

 

Complete FAIL !

 

80 ft long x 7.5 ft wide x 8 ft deep = 4800 cubic feet MAXIMUM **if** the pool were 8 ft deep the entire length.

 

4800 cu.ft. x 62.43 lbs per cu.ft. = 299,664 lbs **if** it were 8 feet deep the entire length AND filled to the brim.

 

You stated that the pool depth is much LESS than 8 feet average, claiming it varies from 3.5 feet to 8 feet, so the volume / weight of the water is MUCH LESS than the 299,664 maximum, closer to half if the slope is an even 45 degrees from end to end, less than half if the shallow end extends as far as it appears in the photo.

 

With math FAILURES like that, you and Randal should hang out in the Marijuana Stoner forum.

 

So sad.

 

Now give me my win for guessing the Goat Curry! and I won't report you to your 6th grade math teacher.

.

 

LoriMidsonCafeSociety
LoriMidsonCafeSociety moderator editortopcommenter

All of you who are guessing numbers that start with 200,000 are way, way, way off --more to the point, way, way, way under.

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