Weird America. Weiiiiiird.
You can’t beat the boulder units
large boulder the size of a small boulder
How much bricks is this?
How old are the baby elephants used to measure this? And which species?
As old as baby elephants, exactly.
Same species as baby elephants surprisingly.
So, before they become toddler elephants. Got it.
They’re chocolate elephants that you get from the grocery store on Easter
how is that possible, isnt the densest element like 22g/cm^3? i dont know how much 3 baby elephants weight but its definitely more
Chunk of a neutron star, of course.
It’s a sarcastic shitpost. Don’t over think it.
Must be really small baby elephants
Metric is scientific, media units are relatable. 355 CC’s with a mass of roughly 360 kgs is hardly easy to visualize compared to 3 elephants on a scale next to a can of Dr Pepper.
Metric is perfectly relatable for anyone growing up using it. This is just you outing yourself as USAmerican.
P.S. We would use Litres, which everyone has a concept of (Everyone has seen a 1 litre carton of milk) and is easily converted to/ from cubic cm (1000 cm^3 = 1 L = 1000 mL).
While this is probably the reason they do this, I hate that they don’t mention the correct number before giving a “relatable” example.
I know what 355 cm^3 is roughly. And I know how much sth. Weighs in kg.
I don’t know how heavy a elephant baby is. Wtf?
Yes. And “baby elephant” is also a vague term to begin with. I imagine a 1 week old elefant weighs a lot less than a 20 week old one. How long is an elephant considered a baby? I have no idea.
Y’all failed to realize that Americans are math, science, and just regular plain sorts of illiterate. So if you want them to understand anything, you have to give it to them in units they can physically see or common household objects.
Just think of it as trying to explain a difficult concept to a toddler or maybe at best a six-year-old. That’s what it feels like talking to the American public.
To be fair, that’s the level of education, that mainstream media outlets expect of the general population elsewhere, as well.
Here in Germany, they reference things in bathtubs, football fields (read: soccer), and Saarlands.
Motherfucker, how often do you think we encounter baby elephants?
So, 12oz can contains 355mL, which is 355cm^3
Okay so how much force is 3 baby elephants?
Yes, I’d try to estimate the density.
A baby elephant weighs about 90 to 120 kg at birth. So the density would be in the ballpark of almost 1000 g/cm³, while the densest element on earth is osmium at 22.570 g/cm³. Seems odd to me
Yeah, somebody fucked up the game of telephone.
hey AP, we found a super dense chunk of rock orbiting mars.
Channel 23 tim: hey I just saw a feed they had a super desnse chunk of rock orbiting Mars!
Channel 23 Fred: God DMANNIT timmy, I done tol you that our viewers ain’t gonna put up with no science bullshit. Now you tell me straight up, how this is important. Is it big? Is it heavy? is it comin for earth?
Channel 23 tim: it’s not very big, but it’s pretty heavy and it’s not coming for earth
Channel 23 Fred: I ain’t wastin no time on in then. If you can’t give me a size I can understant and tell me how heavy it is so I know why it matters, you can’t post it.
Channel 23 tim: It’s like a small car, and it weighs as much as a motorcycle.
Channel 23 Fred: That ain’t gonna get people to watch shit, here, it’s the size of a pop can, and weighs as much as a F-250…
Channel 23 Sally: You can’t just say it weighs as much as a Ford, they’re not sponsors. Let’s say it’s an elepnant.
Channel 23 Fred: naw, too fucking big they won’t get it
Channel 23 Sally: a baby elephant
Channel 23 Fred: you gotta think bigger call it 3…
Channel 23 tim: shipping it
I have a theory that is a jumbo sized Dr pepper
Is it coming at us at 28 times the speed of light?
Obvious product placement by the baby elephant lobby
Alex Horne wrote this.
Yesterday I searched for how much an acre is, only to find this: https://www.wagrown.com/what-does-an-acre-look-like
1,584 potatoes
The amount of potatoes needed to make a line from one end to the other end of an acre.And Wikipedia made it sound even funnier to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre
It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, 1⁄640 of a square mile, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare.
Or with rods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit)
The ‘perfect acre’ is a rectangular area of 43,560 square feet, bounded by sides 660 feet (a furlong) long and 66 feet (a chain) wide (220 yards by 22 yards) or, equivalently, 40 rods by 4 rods. An acre is therefore 160 square rods or 10 square chains.
Completely unserious country, lol
Agreed, this seems like a 100% completely honest attempt to be a relatable reference and clearly has no humor injected into it at all.
edit: 1 acre is equivalent to 4 ‘roods’ lmao that’s wonderful.
Product placement getting the bills paid without being excessively obnoxious–rare.
It’s not “Meteor the size of a Dr Pepper” but “A meteor The size of Dr Pepper” as in the whole company.
I’m confused.
Not from the mass or size.
But from exactly what it is doing to Mars?
What, you’ve never obitited something?
