Let’s start with the Empire State Building: The number of people who died is officially five people, from five different causes of death: falling down an elevator shaft, getting hit by a truck, falling off scaffold, getting killed in a construction blast, and getting struck by a hoist. Next, the Eiffel Tower, which has an official death toll of… zero people. That’s right, due to some safety equipment no one died during its construction, so why did I still add this one to the list? Well one Italian worker died off duty a few days before the Eiffel Tower was open to the public. Then there is the Titanic, where a total of eight people died, though only five of those deaths are completely documented.

Hi, pizzadogs here. You may be wondering why I decided to make a post about people dying in the construction of some of the world’s greatest wonders, (even if one of those wonders is currently submerged). The answer is that I was just at the Eiffel Tower, and one of my post ideas that I decided not to do was to explain the history of the Eiffel Tower, which led me down a rabbit hole that eventually led me to figuring out how many people died in the creation of three impressive things.

Johannesburg, though widely considered the richest city in Africa, does not seem to be as rich as it’s claimed to be. If you go downtown you will find it to be dusty and for how much people hype up Johannesburg as the richest city in Africa, on the borderline of depressing. The best way to describe it is if you’re expecting Gucci and end up with Target. So why do people still consider it as the richest city in Africa? Well, you have to consider a key fact about Johannesburg’s economy, it’s that Johannesburg has over 10 thousand millionaires, and 25 centi-millionaires, along with two billionaires. According to my calculations, the minimum that all of these people could be worth together is $24,025,000,000. Now just this 24 billion dollars could help shake the city’s GDP per capita, and it did. Johannesburg’s GDP per capita is around 12 thousand dollars per person. Now compare this to Cape Town’s 13 thousand dollars per person, now compare that two Cairo’s 4 thousand dollars per person. Now the last one may sound a little weird to put out there but its sheer numbers of people and importance to Egypt put it up there. The final verdict may be unclear but my take away from all this research is that what the richest city in Africa mostly depends on who you ask, and what data you chose to trust. For this post I chose to assume the most median number that was easy to work with. But think of it, this title could be more like ‘Johannesburg is NOT the richest city in Africa’, just by using different information. And so the answer to the question ‘why is Johannesburg considered the richest city in Africa’ is probably that people decided to trust the people who said it was rich.

I just left Cape Town, and I’m kind of sad. It was fun being in Cape Town, but it might be more fun being in Kruger National Park. As soon as we arrived, I knew it was going to be fun. They have three modified Toyota Land Cruisers that they take out at dawn and dusk on safaris. You have to wake up at 5:30 to catch the dawn safari though. Just so you know, I will not be posting for a little bit, as I may not have access to the internet.

Look I know I said I would stop making Thought Thursdays on signs, but this is different. I have another picture, and I thought it was funny. Basically the place with the ‘stupidity is not a disability’ sign is a wine region, and the views are great. The only sad part is that you’re looking at the cape flats which is on my places to avoid in South Africa list. Anyway the reason we were there was because my dad wanted to do their wine tastings. After my dad was done with his wine, and I was done with my tasty sourdough bread, we passed by the loo with the view and thought ‘we have to do this’. The bathroom had nothing special in it. The loo was normal and so was the sink, but there was a window overlooking the fields of grapes. That probably was one of the best bathroom experiences I’ve had, so just remember Beau Constantia has the Loo With The View.

I’m gonna be talking about this sign because I think its placed in a bad spot. You can’t see it, but it’s half way up the line, meaning you could of waited hours to get there and had to turn around because of it.

You may have noticed that I’ve made three Thought Thursdays on signs. I’ll try to make posts that aren’t centered around a sign in the future though.

So I never explained what they measure. so today I’m going to do that. Starting… now!

So Decisecond 1/10 second its the tenths on a stopwatch.

Millisecond1/1,000 second it is the speed of human reaction times.

Microsecond 1/1,000,000 second balloon pops are this fast.

Nanosecond 1/1,000,000,000 second it takes this long for light to travel about one foot

Picosecond 1/1,000,000,000,000 second computer processor operations take this long.

Femtosecond 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 second Chemical reactions are this fast

Attosecond 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000 second Electron dynamics inside atoms and quantum mechanics are this fast.

Zeptosecond Subatomic events, such as the time it takes a photon to cross a hydrogen molecule are this fast.

Yoctosecond Radioactive decay of tiny subatomic particles like quarksare this fast.

Planck Time The absolute theoretical limit of the smallest possible measurement in physics

This is a guide on how to experience every thing Cape Town has to offer in one day. The first step is to rent out a car, buy the fast track cable car tickets, and go up and down the mountain. Then drive to Cape Point take a few pictures then head to the wine regions and buy a bottle of wine. Then go to Robben Island. Then go on a plane and head back home.

Hi, i’m pizzadogs, please enjoy the #1 thought Thursday:

It says no parking for one minute but can I park for 59 seconds? But I still wonder, can I park for 59 seconds 999 milliseconds? Can I park for 59 seconds 999,999 microseconds? Can I park for 59 seconds 999,999,999 nanoseconds? After asking myself these puzzling questions I set out on a quest to find the smallest unit of time. After some digging I found something called a Planck time. Planck time measures the amount of time it would take for light to travel a Planck length. For reference, a Planck length is about ten trillion times smaller than an atom. Planck time is supposed to be the smallest measurement of time, its supposed to be, so I’ll make something smaller. I’ll call it splinter time, it will be the one thing smaller than Planck time, it will be one tenth of a Planck length. Meaning it will be 53.9 Septendecillionths. Which means that the longest you can park in that parking spot is 59 seconds o.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 splinter times