lol a material that dense and that small would just blow up
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.
Now do Empire State buildings and football fields.
Metric fuckton
Small can syndrome
Alex Horne wrote this.
You can’t beat the boulder units
Weird America. Weiiiiiird.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
Is it coming at us at 28 times the speed of light?
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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.
