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    4 hours ago

    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

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      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