How many licks does it take to get to the center....

[Misfit]

http://time.com/3702741/tootsie-pop-science/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150205095046.htm


http://nypost.com/2015/02/09/nyu-cracks-the-question-how-many-licks-to-the-center-of-a-tootsie-pop/

Brace yourself, Mr. Owl: The world finally knows how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop — and it’s a lot more than three.

It takes an estimated 1,000 swipes of the tongue per centimeter of candy to reach the center of one’s favorite lollipop, according to a new study published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

This ultimately means that a Tootsie Pop, at approximately 1.063 inches in diameter, would need to be licked about 2,500 times for someone to successfully make it to the middle, according to doctoral student Jinzi Huang and his colleagues at NYU.

 

[vraiblonde]

I'm glad to see young people putting their college education to good use.

 

[Larry Gude]

I'm glad to see young people putting their college education to good use.

Why? Did they ask the tootsie pop how it felt about all this?

 

[b23hqb]

Why? Did they ask the tootsie pop how it felt about all this?

There ya go - sensitivity training on top of the government grant to pay for the study......

 

[jrt_ms1995]

Must be a bunch of dumba88ed Sheldon Cooper-theoreticians at that Yankee school; my Leonard Hofstatder-experiments from decades ago (yes, I actually did) found it to be less than 1,000, though not by much, and I don't remember the actual value.