Some people are just more comfortable with good old familiar units like baby elephants per corgi. What do they even use for that in the metric system? Millihectares per decilitre or something? Whatever.
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“0.012 m^3^ meteor weighing 400 kg hit Texas”
Boooooring.
you could also say 12L meteor weighing 400kg .. which is pretty cool, imagine 12 cartons of milk weighing the same as 4 fairly large people
1.5 fairly large people. You're talking to Americans, remember.
I mean they were probably already confused by the L and the cartons of milk ..
Soda is generally sold in 2L bottles here, with single liter bottles growing in popularity. Alcohol is usually sold by the ml, though in units like "fifth" and "handle."
Milk though, milk is sold in half-pints (not sure why they don't write cup), pints, quarts, half-gallon, or gallon. I like to pretend a quart is a shrinkflated liter though.
For non-metric users, three gallons of milk is probably more accessible. 400 kg is 880lb, which is roughly 12x as dense as water, which is the wild part (or it feels like it, that could be a totally normal density for stone, I’ve already put too much effort in for napkin math on a shitpost)
So palladium is has a density of 12.02, which it's price per ounce a little under 2000 CAD, that "corgi" is worth ~$27,846,525.99 CAD at current prices.
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So it's roughly the size of a bucket.
Well. A corgi-sized bucket, anyway. Not one of the bigger ones, great dane or so.
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The most fucked unit of measurement I've seen is your mom.
Is nobody bothered about how un-corgi-sized the meteor on the picture is?
AI is a curse...
nah, we understand that a lot of material burns off
What will we call a half ton? George Washington: 4 baby elephants.
Americans will measure anything except use metric 😂
You know well that Americans have only a very loose grip on units and reality. That's why they use imperial and "elephants per football field" like units.
Someone's clearly below average on bald eagles per gunshot fired and, frankly, I think a little jealous.
Had to check that it's actually plausible.
Assuming a corgi is 0.4m long, 0.3m tall and 0.2m wide and that a baby elephant weighs 120kg that gives the meteor a density of 20000kg/m³.
There are only a few elements denser than that, but it's possible.
The meteor was, according to NASA, about 2 feet across and weighed 1000 pounds. So their baby elephants are on the lighter side and their corgis are fairly normal size.
I'm going to assume a sphere, 60 centimeters in diameter, and a weight of 450 kg. Volume of the sphere is 113000cm^3^, which gives us a density of 3,9g/cm^3^. That's heavier than most rocks (silicon at 2.3), but much lighter than iron (7.9).
Wouldn’t it just be iron?
Possibly, astrophysics is usually about order of magnitude and while iron is only 8000kg/m³ it's within error margins.
And of course, it depends on how chubby the corgi is.
And how malnourished the baby elephants are. I mean, there are 4 of them, that's a big litter for an elephant. Perhaps they aren't all suckling as much as is normal because the mother elephant isn't producing enough milk for 4. Maybe the mother elephant is sickly, after such a difficult birth. God, what if she even died?! The poor things will starve!
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I need a banana for scale.
According to some searching a banana is 100 - 150 cubic centimeters, while this meteor was .012 cubic meters, meaning roughly the volume of 80 - 120 average bananas (mashed). The meteor weighed 400kg while an (again, perfectly average) banana weighs 100 - 130g. This means that the weight of the meteor is between 3076 - 4000 bananas. So let's call it the weight of 3500 bananas in the space of 100, or roughly 35x the density of your average earth banana. (Lemmy bananaticians or bananologists, please correct me if I did bad math.)
You mean you can fit 4 baby elephants inside a corgy? Damn...
I mean, density wise, yeah
If you try hard enough you can fit anything inside a Corgi.
Neutron star corgi
Tell me your from America without telling me your from America
I hate to be that guy, but
your is possessive.
you're is you are.
Fahrenheit is still saner than Celsius for outside temperatures.
The hate for the french is everywhere 😓😓😓
you have to adapt to the target audience.. look where that asteroid hit.
So that's, what, around 7 loaves of Wonder Bread weighing the same as one and a half gorillas?
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