Americans will use anything other than the metric system

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NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca · 85 pts · 1y (10 replies)

I don't think this is possible. As far as I know, osmium is the densest element. A 355 cc chunk of osmium would only be about eight kilograms. I'm not sure what mass a baby elephant has, but I'm going to assume three of them would be well above eight kilos.

Bezier@suppo.fi · 54 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Nah, the drink is just american sized

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1y

::: spoiler It's "child-sized". :::

LordWiggle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

It contains 300kg of sugar, or for the Americans here, about 3 baby elephants of sugar.

devfuuu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

best explanation so far.

IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 1y

The article writer got things confused. The meteor is the size of Dr Hans Pepper, not the soft drink Dr Pepper.

Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 1y

It's probably some stupid way of describing it's inertia

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Can confirm, am American and three baby elephants are way heavier than whatever communist unit a "kilo" is.

30p87@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Kilopound, of course

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

Sounds like some made-up British nonsense to me, like the stone. Can you rephrase in slugs?

7uWqKj@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

IIRC elephants are born at 100 kg.

daggermoon@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y

That is much larger than a can of Dr. Pepper. The photograph is so clear and it's covered in fucking craters.

TomMasz@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Can't believe I'm the first one to mention the "Orbititing".

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Right, it clearly should be "orbititting"

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

orbititting goth girlfriend

MeatPilot@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

Damn 3 Baby elephants? That's like 225 ducks!

nacho_taco@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y

Now nasa is doing ad placements?

RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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Eezyville@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y

It's extremely hard actually. The problem isn't the math, it's the ability to communicate with other Americans because you'll be speaking a foreign language.

squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y

Crossposted to !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de

BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

Anything but the metric system

FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

BREAKING NEWS