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If a euorpean sparrow were to circumnavigate the globe carring two halves of an empty cocoanut shell...?

If a euorpean sparrow were to circumnavigate the globe carring two halves of an empty cocoanut shell, what additional velosity would it have to travel at if it were to pass through the african continant on its way, to reach it's home point at the same time as if it were to travel in a due eastward direction?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    ......two halves of an empty coconut shell...what are the chances that it would land on me head?

  • 1 decade ago

    No additional velocity needed if the sparrow started in Africa

  • 1 decade ago

    a sparrow would never be able to lift two halfs of a coconut shell

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    23 mph

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    lol i think of you're able to desire to apply them as undies, fill them with lard and hold close them out for the birds, use them in a attractive placing packed with cocktails, or, and it is my well-known, fill them with mushy cloth and use them as ear muffs. xx

  • 1 decade ago

    Not very nice sneeking math in to the riddle.

    Besides this is not the kind of math that I had when I was in school.

  • 1 decade ago

    My god! Doesn't anyone watch Monte Python anymore.

  • a few 100 thousands??

  • 1 decade ago

    where in europe is this unfortunate bird beginning from?

  • 1 decade ago

    about a million

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