Putting woman on the moon...

Don't look to rockets or mass elevators or rail guns... no, the answer lies in eastern European contortionists. While performing an experiment inspired by a recent numb3rs episode, I attempted to see how many times I could fold a piece of paper in half.

Answer: 7.
Thickness of paper before folds: .0001 m
Thickness after 7 folds: .0128 m
Surface Area (one-side) before folds: .05677 meters squared
Surface Area after folds: 4.4 E -4 meters squared

Let's now apply the same concept to our contortionist... To get to the moon we need to travel 385,000,000 meters. How many times does our contortionist have to bend and fold to get to the moon...

Thickness of contortionist : .15 m
Thickness after 31 folds: 322,122,547 m
Surface Area (one-side) before folds: .42 meters squared
Surface Area after folds: 3.9 E -10 meters squared

I don't know about you but that doesn't seems to hard to do! Granted our little contortionist would be very little after the folds, about the width of an atom...