Dumb questions

 

 With nothing better to post about, I thought I would ask grok (and the internet) a bunch of dumb questions.  Here we go!

X stats:

USA obviously the nation with the most X posts all time; followed by Japan, India, Indonesia, the UK, Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia.  Canada got 15th... Australia didn't make the top 20, but Nigeria did.  Scam harder, Aussies!

Then I asked who was the lowest non-zero poster. Vatican City was lowest, followed by most of the south Pacific, and then San Marino in 5th.  Grok suggested that I might want to do the lowest by per capita, and then you get Eritrea as the lowest, easily beating South Sudan, who easily beat Niger for third.  So X is essentially avoided by flyspeck islands, Italian microstates, and African nations who broke off from other African nations.

Stars and not-so-stars

I decided to ask what was the brightest star in the night sky that wouldn't gobble up the Earth if it sat where the sun does.  There were three it gave me: Sirius which is the #1 brightest star outside the sun.  Which, I should have known, actually.  Following it was #8 Procyon and #12 Altair.  By contrast, the typical white dwarf in the sun's place would look about like top-brightness Venus.

Then I came up with one I could solve myself with a little help from the Baseball Reference: Who was the BEST player on the WORST team?  That worst team would be the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, who went 20-134.  The best players on this team, by the best stat for determining it (which I won't bore you with explaining) are the 2 catchers.  Best overall was backup catcher Charles Zimmer, (actually their 3rd-stringer) who hit .342 in 20 games with a couple of home runs.  Now this is dead-ball era, meaning that the HR lead in the league was 15, so 2 was pretty darn good.  The best starter was fellow backstop Joe Sugden, who managed a .276 average in 26 games.

How about the worst player on the best team?  Well, everyone would conced the 1927 Yankees are the best team ever.  And the worst player on THAT team (by that same stat) was Cedric Durst, who hit .248 in 65 games.  He trailed Babe Ruth in hits by 160, home runs by 60, RBIs by 140, and average by .108.

X corrects itself

Grok now says it messed up.  The white Dwarf would be brighter than the moon, but not as big- the blue flame from a welding arc would be a close visual.

Also, out of the 10 brightest stars, Only #2 Canopus and #5 Betelguese wouls swallow earth- but the others wouldn't exactly make life fun.

Saturday morning once more

Finally, I asked for the most popular cartoon characters.  Here's what I got:

10- Pikachu

9- Bluey (Misty is essentially the same as Bluey's sister)

8- Good ol' Charlie Brown

7-Bart Simpson

6- His Dad, Homer Simpson

5- Tom from Tom and Jerry

4- Scooby-Doo

3- Spongebob Squarepants

2- Bugs Bunny

And to no great surprise, the #1...

...Mickey Mouse.  Appropriate for such a Mickey-Mouse post!