I've got some electrons that need to be in Indianapolis by 10!

The election has become more interesting than one talking head versus another. Here's hoping this gets even crazier.

Exactly the first thing I thought about. If we can get thousands of dollars for video games that *likely* will not move society forward as a whole, we can get thousands of dollars for giant atom smashers.

you forgot *(your end result)/ 2*. it is 217,000 texts between 2 people.

from the article:
"Andes says he sent more than 140,000 messages and Klinger sent more than 70,000 for their total of just over 217,000"

so, in reality, your math is completely wrong.

i am guessing that many of the texts were simple one or 2 word replies, which take little to no time at all to punch out if you know your phone well enough. there is also the chance that they just resent previously created messages and saved "quick" texts. you chunk a bunch of short small texts into a few hours and you can find time for other things. as for the sleeping... maybe they have some sort of auto-reply enabled.

This is part of the reason that it is now Army policy that no usb flash drives can be used to transfer data. This was put out sometime between November and mid-December. I was pretty upset considering that I purchased one for military use...