Happy halloween! Google celebrates Halloween with a massive pumpkin carving videos. What is the science behind the giant pumpkin?
Google bid Web surfing masses happy Halloween video footage Monday from Googlers carving huge pumpkins in the middle part of the company in mountain view, Calif., campus. Each pumpkin weighs about 1000 pounds, with a heavy weight from them in 1298 pounds.
Pumpkins-the world's largest fruit (botanically speaking, the fruit is any plant with seeds inside), and they can get a lot more than those seen at Google video. According to Guinness world records heavy pumpkin ever grown in 2010, Chris Stevens of new Richmond, Wis., tipped the scales at 1, 810.5 pounds.
Cinderella stories aside, Titanic pumpkins are a relatively new phenomenon. In 1991, world record holder was simply 493.5 pounds. Ten years later, a thousand pound threshold was growing, and they just keep getting bigger.
It all started with Nova Scotia horticulturist Howard dill, the most famous people in the world (at least when it comes to mammoth pumpkins). All of today's record-shattering results come from a pumpkin with 1979, called the Atlantic giant pumpkin subspecies Member Maxim. C. maxima first grew in the early 19th century, to producers who crossed the Japanese kabocha Squash with Hubbard squash.
In addition to the right seeds there are several other factors that go into a huge pumpkin. According to the National Gardening Association Elephantine pumpkins prefer soil pH 6.5 -7, with a large number of organic substances. Giant pumpkins to 130 days to maturity, and their fast speed they can get up to 50 pounds per day rate comparable to large trees.
Why go to all the effort? Brobdingnagian pumpkins can be profitable. As notes, the student magazine of the NYU Scienceline, pumpkin Festival and Half Moon Bay California art fairs pumpkin grower paid heavy 6 dollars per pound.
If the theoretical upper limit on the size of the pumpkin, science has yet to determine what it is. Enter in 2010, article in International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, a team of researchers at Georgia Tech noted that pumpkins grow, they morph from spheres to pancakes. The Group demonstrated that mixing allows pumpkins extend internal stresses so that they can grow in the same proportions as the ginormous belly without hacking. On the other hand, tend to avoid cracking, growing pumpkins only in places where they can do so without hacking.
The limiting factor here is gravity. But this can be overcome only through the construction of hydroponics Pumpkin patch on board the international space station.
Well maybe, just not the right word here. Cost to taxpayers would be enormous, as would be inconvenient for astronauts trying to maneuver around the rapidly growing pumpkins. But it would be worth it so we can have a second Moon?
