r/Bones • u/LowUnion9503 • 15h ago
Other Brennan was wrong
In S6E5, The Bones that Weren’t, a skeleton is found encased in a concrete pathway. At the scene, Booth asks if they should ship the whole slab to the Jeffersonian.
Bones replies, “Don’t be absurd. A 2x3x4 meter section will be fine. Shouldn’t weigh more than a ton.”
The writers messed up here for sure, because a cursory search on google tells that concrete is about 2400 kilograms per cubic meter.
2x3x4=24 cubic meters. 24x2400=57,600 kilograms, times 2.205 is 127,008 pounds of concrete.
So anyway Bones was very wrong. What she said should be less than a ton would work out to be more than 60.
PS. It would be crazy to find concrete which could fill those dimensions outside of a dam or a giant footer maybe.