Bec is very tired because she's filming Makeaway Takeaway. Matt knows she's been busy because he's no longer getting text messages and phone calls. She's rediscovered a playlist she originally put together for Matt.
Since the last recording, she's gotten news that the first three books of a series she's writing, Horror Heights, will be coming out.
While Bec has been busy, Matt has discovered a hole in his house. While he has temporarily shoved some paper towels in the hole, he has a better plan. During winter, you live in a warm box in a cold environment that takes energy to maintain. Your fridge is a cold box inside that warm box that takes even more energy to maintain. Instead, Matt intends to somehow connect the fridge to the cold outside through the hole. He's ordered some insulated conduit already, but has yet to obtain an old fridge to cut a hole in. Bec notes that this is a better use for an old fridge than keeping it running, following advice from problem 001-3.
How many Bec Hills could fit in Bexhill? [Editor's note: Bexhill is a town, and not in fact a hill.]
Bec has never been to Bexhill. Matt frequents Matthew Parker Street, and has even been to Bexhill, just after they broke the world record for number of mermaids in a single area. In 2012, Bexhill was found to have the highest amount of centenarians in the UK. In October 2021, the East Sussex Astronomical Society will be hosting Lucie Green (Matt's wife) as their speaker.
Bec has scrawled all her calculations on her hand, which are slightly smudged. Bexhill is 32.31 km². Instead of measuring her own diameter (see problem 011-2), she measured her rectangular dimensions, which are 29 cm by 45 cm. The answer: 247'586'206 Bec Hills fit in Bexhill.
But how many actual people called Bec Hill can fit in Bexhill? With the help of some websites, she estimated that there are 81 Bec Hills in the world. However, that's only those born as "Bec", not "Rebecca". Including Rebeccas, there should be 23'757 Bec Hills in the world. Bexhill currently has about twice as many residents, so the answer is: Every Bec Hill could live in Bexhill.
A "That's 100% a ding, well done" from Matt
If you got every animal, which species would form the longest queue when all individuals of that species would be queuing up.
Matt asks Bec for her intuition. She suggests rats or cockroaches. Producer Jon guesses cows, which are big and there are a lot. There's a also lots of chickens. Lucie guessed worms.
Matt could not find a good database for animal species population sizes nor animal sizes, so he had to do the calculations by hand. Humans in a queue lying down would be 13 million km long, but standing up it would only be 2.2 million km long. If humans can't lie down, cows are about 3.6 million km long, and chickens are about 11.6 million km long. Ants across species would be 54.7 billion km long, which makes about 4 million km if you assume they're distributed into species randomly. There is no clear answer. Biology is a mess.
Excluding bacteria and worms, the answer is humans (if we're allowed to lie down), otherwise chickens.
A "I think that is worthy of a ding" by Bec
Bec was contacted by a company called HigherDOSE, who sell sauna blankets, a kind of very hot electric sleeping bag. They sent one out, and Bec filmed herself in it and put it on YouTube (the video has graphs). With the jacket on, her body temperature was significantly lower at the end of the experiment. Matt suspects that the jacket only buys you time, but at the end the jacket will catch up. With the jacket on, it might even get worse.
An "absolute ding" by Matt, and a "ding" by Bec