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you have to adapt to the target audience… look where that asteroid hit.
Mixing units of measurement here; corgis are metric dogs.
Are you sure? Aren’t they Bri’ish, so they’d be gallons, but weird slightly small gallons?
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?
nah, we understand that a lot of material burns off
AI is a curse…
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.
Billaneters
“0.012 m3 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
In your example of why the American system is bad resort to using the American system because nobody had any context?
Check mate atheists.
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.
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.
I mean, it’s basic knowledge isn’t it? If you know e=mc2 you’d better also know (be)4=c
The hate for the french is everywhere 😓😓😓
Americans will measure anything except use metric 😂
That clipping is from a European publisher. Lol
Americans can work as editors for European publishers 🤷🏻
The editor was certainly no true Scotsman.
idk how you know that but even so, the news is from Texas which means they’re probably just relaying the news from a US agency.
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.
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!
Considering elephants birth one at a time after like 18 months…
I assumed a very rectangular shape.
Assume a rectangular corgi.
A spherical corgi is just a corgi, so that really just complicates it.
Corgis (adult) are pretty much one size, but are we talking newborn or year-old baby elephants? At what age does “baby” graduate to “toddler” in a species that stands and walks within an hour of birth?
20,000kg/m³ is 20g/cm³, and only a couple of elements are that dense. But it’s not reasonable that a meteor is solid uranium, platinum, gold or osmium.
It’s probably mostly iron. But, but that would mean only 2 baby elephants per corgi, not 4.
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 113000cm3, which gives us a density of 3,9g/cm3. That’s heavier than most rocks (silicon at 2.3), but much lighter than iron (7.9).
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.
You mean you can fit 4 baby elephants inside a corgy? Damn…
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If you try hard enough you can fit anything inside a Corgi.
Neutron star corgi
What will we call a half ton? George Washington: 4 baby elephants.
So if a baby elephant weighs 250 lbs (middle of the 200-300 lb range Google gave me) and a corgi is 11 inches tall (and that the extra corgi length is compensated for by the fact that we are assuming that this corgi is spherical), that’s 1.43 lb/in^3. I’ve run out of time to do conversations, but this meteor was apparent at least part neutron star.
Am I wrong for wanting to live in a world with spherical corgis?
Yes, you are.
Look at a corgi. Just look. Why would you want to change it?
So that’s, what, around 7 loaves of Wonder Bread weighing the same as one and a half gorillas?
Fahrenheit is still saner than Celsius for outside temperatures.
