Talk:Where the Buggalo Roam

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[edit] Zapp's first appearance

I've edited the part that said "When Zapp Brannigan first appears in the episode, he declares...", because that isn't his first appearance - he's also seen in the beginning of the episode, giving "advice" to Kif. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.92.178.164 (talk) 19:22, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cost of the Diamond "Bead"

I made the edit on the diamond "bead" at the end of the episode. I wondered how much it was worth, since it looked pretty big and maybe the natives were fairly paid for their Western Hemisphere of Mars. Well, I figured the diamond looked a bit shorter than a person, so I made it 4 foot wide and 4 foot tall. A Cone (geometry) is 1/3 * pi * base * height. Diamonds have a specific density of 3.52 (3.52 heavier than same volume of water). So I calculated the volume as: 1 / 3 π r² h with both h and r= 60.96 cm. This makes the diamond 14,461,325 cc = 50,903,864 gm = 50,904 kg. Can someone check my math? This is 50 tons, which is a bit much. I would have guess the weight of a car, which is 1-2 tons, so I am off by an order of magnitude. Anyhow, a diamond carat (not to be confused with a gold karat) is 1 / 5 gram. I read that a diamond goes up as the square of the weight: and it seems true on a diamond site that a 1/2 carat diamond goes for $2,000 and a 1 carat goes for $8,000. Thus, the diamond "bead" will be 254,519,319 carats. One must square that to get the increase over $8,000, which is 518,240,669,305,116,000,000 = $518 x 10¹⁸ (thank you, Excel).

--Peter10003 (talk) 02:54, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

I removed this as it is speculation and Wikipedia does not publish original research. Stardust8212 17:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural References

When Leo says that they are going to eat Betsy, Amy's lifelong pet, at her wedding, I think this may be a reference to the practice in some culture (I think from somewhere in Asia?) of giving infant girls the gift of a turtle, which grows up with her and is consumed at the wedding. Does anyone recall the culture that this is from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.204.85.128 (talk) 09:07, 12 May 2008 (UTC)