Also reminded me of ‘small boulder the size of a large boulder’
Anything but metric
An asteroid the size of 5000 9mm rounds weighing as much as 4000 kilos of seized cocaine
Finally a measurement I can relate to.
I can’t. I need it in 7.62 NATO
But metric can still be applied. Hear me out.
So a yard is roughly one meter. It means a kilo-yard is about one kilometer and a centi-yard is one centimeter. How many miles or inches that is, is a conversion problem within the imperial system.
In the same way, a quart is about one liter. Milli-quart is about one milliliters. Easy. How many gills those are is not our problem.
There is no immediate equivalent for weight, although a double-pound would be roughly one kilogram.
It’s almost like Imperial system units have all been borrowed from different measurement systems that should have nothing to do with each other. Tho I could get behind 12 inches in a foot, that seems nice to divide
Americans formulating newer and more insane measurements because they can’t use normal ones
It is our heritage
Most of America use metric.
Lies made up by big measurements
No.
Yeah, but how many washing machines big was the crater?
Reference
The size of a corgi? That’s nearly an 8th of a bald eagle. If it’s really the weight of a baby elephant, then that’s at least 200 pistols. That’s hella dense, but i wish they’d use standard measures. I hate having to translate that into American like this.
They do that to invite curiosity that facilitates learning. But. I get you.
Anyway what kind of pistols are we talking about here? A Desert Eagle .44 weighs in about 72oz while a baby elephant is about 200-300 lbs (lets settle in at about 250). Therefore, that is 1000 lbs. A thousand pounds is 16000 oz and that makes it about 222 Desert Eagles .44.
“A meteor the size of a Hot n Ready pizza that weighs roughly the same as four coal-rollers declared war on our freedom! Emperor Trump vows to destroy all meteors in the galaxy!”
And he’ll make the Kuiper Belt pay for it!
NASA’s just going to get more and more specific to these:
"So there’s this asteroid that’s about the size of Ted from Accounting. Now I mean Ted Abrams from Accounting, not Ted Hillman. Okay? Big difference. Anyway, so it’s roughly the size of Ted, but, like, if Ted tucks himself into a loose cannonball like he’s diving into a pool. I mean, he’s not tightly compact like a ball, we all know Ted isn’t that flexible. I mean, not since he threw out his back a couple.of years ago, poor guy. But get this, y’all: this sucker weighs the same as a 1972 Ford Pinto. Only it’s a Ford Pinto that’s had the engine block removed, is missing the right-read tire (the wheel is there, just no tire), has a quarter tank of gas, and there.are three.Verne Troyers in the seats. Huh? Yeah, the.guy who played Mini Me. No, no. The guy from Jackass is somebody else entirely.
Okay, but yeah, that asteroid’s gonna land smack dab in the middle of Carmel, Indiana’s KFC at about 2:43 AM EST on February 11th, 2024. It’ll mostly disintegrate by the time it hits that a couple of tiny pebbles might bounce off the roof, but it’s important that we let you all know this stuff."
I don’t know who runs the Jerusalem Post, but they are constantly measuring asteroids passing near Earth against ridiculous things.
182 beavers - https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-754217
100 hot dogs - https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-749385
48 eggplants - https://www.jpost.com/science/article-740160
6 Darth Vaders (on Star Wars Day) - https://www.jpost.com/science/article-741979
That’s just a sample. They do it all the time.
Probably just to grab attention
Okay this gotta be just simply poking fun on Americans
Oh c’mon now darth vader has lost some weight since
So anywhere between 30 and 60 cubic decimeters and 800kg and who knows what they still consider a baby elephant.
So… Almost between tierce and a rundlet? Or is it just over a quater?
That’s one dense meteor
See, it worked!
How much is that in washing machines?
(4*baby elephant weight)/(washing machine weight) = (4 * 110 kg) / (70 kg) ≈ 6 washing machines
As someone who has had to move washing machines up and down stairs, i have to correct your value there, a washing machine is closer to 43.2 metric tonnes
Only when moving on stairs, when on the floor it weighs like 30lbs tricking you into thinking it will be simple to take to the second floor.
300mm spherical, 480 kilograms.
Why does that sound like something people put on their Tinder profiles
Hoe many cubic football fields is a corgi?
That’s difficult to imagine, a cubic football field would exist in six demensional space.
How many dimensions does a corgi exist in?
All of them.
Some Alex Horne metric that is
How many Little Alex Hornes per baby elephant?
That looks like the CD Ram it down by Judas Priest.
How many banana again?
