
Alt-text: Ties are broken by whoever was closest to the surface of Europa when they were born.
I think we can get by with only a 28-round tournament, given that we exclude everyone under the age of 35. Also, I hope I get a first-round bye.
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eidako wrote:What, no Giant Meteor? He had pretty good numbers in the last election.
Sableagle wrote:Why isn't Malala Yousafzai on the list?
dtilque wrote:My thought: just skip #2 through #7.
ETA: more thoughts: add billionaires who own their own spaceship company immediately after #8.
dtilque wrote:My thought: just skip #2 through #7.
ETA: more thoughts: add billionaires who own their own spaceship company immediately after #8.
dtilque wrote:My thought: just skip #2 through #7.
ETA: more thoughts: add billionaires who own their own spaceship company immediately after #8.
Oh yeah... that'll be easy.RECOMMENDATION: A reordering of the Presidential line of succession to: Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, followed by four or five newly appointed individuals residing outside of Washington, D.C.
somitomi wrote:Where's Zaphod Beeblebrox when you need him?
heuristically_alone wrote:somitomi wrote:Where's Zaphod Beeblebrox when you need him?
He's too busy "running" the entire universe.
pkcommando wrote:Then the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Champion. That title clearly deserves a much higher spot on the list.
dtilque wrote:ETA: more thoughts: add billionaires who own their own spaceship company immediately after #8.
Znirk wrote:Sableagle wrote:Why isn't Malala Yousafzai on the list?
She's under 35 and not native to the United States, so she's only eligible if she takes up tennis and beats Serena Williams at exactly the right time.
Mikeski wrote:I think we can get by with only a 28-round tournament, given that we exclude everyone under the age of 35. Also, I hope I get a first-round bye.
niky wrote:Mikeski wrote:I think we can get by with only a 28-round tournament, given that we exclude everyone under the age of 35. Also, I hope I get a first-round bye.
I did the calculations and got only 0.5 people after the 29th round.
Then realized that the US population was probably much bigger than when I last checked.
Still only 9/10ths of a President.
Which is better than nothing.
Mikeski wrote:niky wrote:Mikeski wrote:I think we can get by with only a 28-round tournament, given that we exclude everyone under the age of 35. Also, I hope I get a first-round bye.
I did the calculations and got only 0.5 people after the 29th round.
Then realized that the US population was probably much bigger than when I last checked.
Still only 9/10ths of a President.
Which is better than nothing.
Wikipedia has the US population at "327,589,916 as of April 23, 2018". That same article has 13% as foreign-born immigrants, and 52.8% as 35 years old or older.
So 327589916*(87%)*(52.8%) = about 150.4 million potential presidents, as a cocktail-napkin calculation. (This doesn't rise to back-of-the-envelope level, I don't think. There are a few others that need to be removed; those who've already done it twice, and citizens who haven't lived in the USA for the past 14 years. I was about to exclude felons, too, but there isn't a rule against a felon being the president, just a rule against a felon voting for the president.)
A single-elimination tournament of N rounds supports 2^N participants. So 28 rounds is about right, allowing 268+ million participants. 27 would only handle 134+ million. Randall's 29-rounder of 536+ million is enough for everyone, eligible or not: foreigners, infants, Bill Clinton, etc.
That means round 1 is 150.4 million jousters and about 118 million byes, so 118 million people get a bye, and the other 32.4 million have to joust each other. I like my chances at making round 2, at least! Maybe more if he meant the video game Joust, since I have no idea how to ride a horse...
JeffDG wrote:dtilque wrote:My thought: just skip #2 through #7.
ETA: more thoughts: add billionaires who own their own spaceship company immediately after #8.
I don't think there are any of those that satisfy the "Natural Born Citizen" requirement.
gmalivuk wrote:We've already tried having an egomaniacal billionaire who believes racist conspiracy theories about the media. It's not working out so great.
dtilque wrote:gmalivuk wrote:We've already tried having an egomaniacal billionaire who believes racist conspiracy theories about the media. It's not working out so great.
OK, we got one rotten apple. And there's other billionaires I wouldn't vote for either, or for that matter, walk across the street to piss on them if they were on fire. But none are in the spaceship group.
herbstschweigen wrote:From a european perspective, I really wonder why the simple solution of just scheduling a new election seems completely unthinkable to you US guys? Your 4-year term seems really written in rock.
Tigerlion wrote:Well, I imagine as the game progresses, various people will be getting moody.
BoomFrog wrote:I still have no idea what town moody really looks like.
Soupspoon wrote:(Who is South-African, whoever it is who doesn't realise that. Geoff Bezos is American, as is Burt Rutan (though I think Richard Branson, the Brit is currently "the money", and there's other people above Rutan in the structure these days). It's a non-zero countable list, but I leave it up to someone else to fully define.)
Soupspoon wrote:(Who is South-African, whoever it is who doesn't realise that. Geoff Bezos is American, as is Burt Rutan (though I think Richard Branson, the Brit is currently "the money", and there's other people above Rutan in the structure these days). It's a non-zero countable list, but I leave it up to someone else to fully define.)
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