Ugh. I'd only be sentient during winter. No thanks.
bryan.derksen
You're sentient as a tree too, though in a sufficiently tree-like way that you don't go nuts from not being able to move. It's maaagic.
bryan.derksen
This would be fatal. There are many variants of the Boeing 747, but the 747-400 seems to be one of the more common ones. It has a dry mass of 178,800 kilograms. Dividing by ten years, that gives a consumption rate of 49 kilograms (108 pounds) per day.
jonnyt_
Someone has actually consumed an airplane. It was Michel Lotito. However, he ate a 1,111 pound Cessna over 2 years. Apparently he typically ate 2 pounds of metal per day (although the math on the Cessna requires that he ate 3 pounds per day, so I guess it was a challenge for him). Anyway, this is nowhere near 108 pounds per day, so I guess even he couldn't handle a 747 in 10 years. Even for Michel, this feat would take roughly 360 years. And I'm pretty sure no-one is better at eating airplanes than him.
Some other information about Michel from the Telegraph:
His diet since 1966 included 18 bicycles, 15 supermarket trolleys, seven TV sets, six chandeliers, two beds, a pair of skis, a low-calorie Cessna light aircraft and a computer. He is said to have provided the only example in history of a coffin (handles and all) ending up inside a man. By October 1997, he had eaten nearly nine tons of metal