American really will use any measurement except metric
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If you regularly use metric in the US, you're either an aerospace engineer or a drug dealer. lol
Or the military, they use it a ton
Or the military, they use it ~~a ton~~ 907kg.
The ton is a metric unit too isn't it?
A metric ton is 1000 kg. Source: Aerospace Military Industrial Complex drug dealer.
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I'd switch, but I've been on the Capy system my whole life, and it's just much more intuitive for me. Everyone knows how long a Capybara is. How fucking long a meter is? Beats the fuck out of me, maybe a half cap?
And we'll misapply it as well. The asteroid isn't the size of 1000 capybaras, it's as wide as 1000 capybaras lined up. Assuming it's roughly spherical, it's actually closer to the size of 524,000,000 capybaras.
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Is 1,000 capybaras equal to 10,000 guinea pigs or is it 99,729.372456 guinea pigs? I'm bad at conversions.
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You may deny it, but capybara measurement is peak measurement.
If it were an American measurement it would be made in Hamberders
The Jerusalem Post
Look I think the joke is as funny as anyone else but the "unit" is an animal most of the Americans its meant to lampoon most likely wouldn't have even heard of.
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Use measurement units damnit
This is a measurement unit. A bit unconventional, but it's not any worse than using three grains of barley, dry and round, placed end to end lengthwise, or the length of King Henry I's foot.
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My friends and I use golden retrievers as a unit of measurement, would that have been better?
This one actually gave me a nice laugh. They are clearly taking a piss at unconventional units of measurement.
The first asteroid, named 349507 (2008 QY), is a colossal mass that is equivalent in size to a bridge.
1 bridge = 1000 capybaras, you heard it here first
I just had a huge breakfast. Easily one third of a capybara
Me, a normal human being: ah yes, one thousand capybaras large, I know exactly its size now.
Y’all are weird not knowing this measurement system. Makes as much sense as miles and inches.
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I don't think they know how volume calculations work. When I read 1000 Capybaras, I though "huh, that's not actually that big", until they say it's actually the diameter or that much capybaras.
EDIT: I did some pocket calculations and it seems like 1000 capybaras can fit into an around 13 capybara diameter sphere.
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1.2 km long, for anyone wondering.
Which is why it’s silly to represent the size of the asteroid in capybara lengths. We should be representing it in capybara volumes or masses. Probably be something more like 1 billion capybaras.
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Anyone downvoting this is boring and doesn’t understand the fun of capybara math 🤣
‘Americans will literally use any other form of measurement other than metric’
How big is it in beans pray tell
Would you rather see 1 astroid size capybara or 1000 capybara sized astroids?
That's easy, the capybara sized asteroids. The only ones who have to care are in space.
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I only accept measurements in washing machines and football fields.
No London buses?
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One capybara weighs on average 108lbs or about 16.5 AR-15s fully loaded.
So the asteroid weighs roughly as much as 422,559 AR-15s with a loaded 20 rd magazine. (Warning my math is bad as I'm American.)
It looks like they are using the length of a capybara, which is just over a meter not the weight. So it's 1,446 ar15s in diameter.
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Wake up, new type of measurement system just dropped. Will America finally replace imperial?
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The Jerusalem Post keeps posting articles comparing asteroids to random things and I love it.
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We really need a bot to translate these oddball units of mass into Volkswagen Beetles like the good Lord intended. Embrace standards, ffs.
How many bananas or Toyota Corollas is that?
i love this measurement. it belies the articles importance
reminds me of an article where the area of a solar array was measured in units of Olympic swimming pools....
just why?
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