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.
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
Maybe some of the baby elephants are balloon animals?
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.
Obvious product placement by the baby elephant lobby
Is it coming at us at 28 times the speed of light?
Alex Horne wrote this.
lol a material that dense and that small would just blow up
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True, quick math that’s 4225x heavier than pure uranium, but still 666x lighter than neutron star soup. No material holds together at that density without a stars worth of gravity
Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding. Could you express that in approximate number of cans of Dr. Pepper?
you need the gravity of a star like Taylor Swift to hold a mass as small as Marco Rubio but as dense as R.F. Kennedy Jr.
It’s the size of a dr. Pepper and the weight of 3 baby elephants.
It’s also the size of a baby elephant foot and the weight of 728 cans of dr. Pepper.
That’s fine and dandy, but what I really wanna know now is, to the size of how many Dr. Pepper cans can I compress 3 baby elephants and have that hold together?
Now do Empire State buildings and football fields.
Metric fuckton
NASA originally published that it was around 1000 pounds and two feet across. Then Jpost sensationalized it. A ball of iron that size would be about 1800 pounds.
Small can syndrome
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.
I’m confused.
Not from the mass or size.
But from exactly what it is doing to Mars?
Product placement getting the bills paid without being excessively obnoxious–rare.
I use metric to hold papers down on my desk.
If I have 10 papers, I add another metric.
It’s not “Meteor the size of a Dr Pepper” but “A meteor The size of Dr Pepper” as in the whole company.
Most people probably know how big a pop can is, and understand that even baby elephants are pretty heavy. It gets the point across better than “A meteor with a volume of approximately one third of a litre and a mass of approximately 350 kilograms”.
No.
33cm3 and 350kg would be much better.
Shows how American you are if you think baby elephants is better.
If they did that, how would they get dr pepper to give them advertising money?
But it’s so ludicrous it doesn’t pass even the most basic smell test.
What’s a baby elephant weight? 100lbs., right out my butt. (Google says 200 at birth.) You can’t pack 300lbs. of anything into a pop can. Nothing in this solar system.
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