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cm0002@lemmy.world to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

Americans will use anything other than the metric system

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Americans will use anything other than the metric system

cm0002@lemmy.world to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago
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  • NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca
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    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
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      Nah, the drink is just american sized

      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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        It's "child-sized".

      • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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        It contains 300kg of sugar, or for the Americans here, about 3 baby elephants of sugar.

      • devfuuu@lemmy.world
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        best explanation so far.

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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      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
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      It’s probably some stupid way of describing it’s inertia

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      Can confirm, am American and three baby elephants are way heavier than whatever communist unit a “kilo” is.

      • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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        Kilopound, of course

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          Sounds like some made-up British nonsense to me, like the stone. Can you rephrase in slugs?

    • 7uWqKj@lemmy.world
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      IIRC elephants are born at 100 kg.

  • daggermoon@lemmy.world
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    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
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    Can’t believe I’m the first one to mention the “Orbititing”.

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      Right, it clearly should be “orbititting”

      • Apeman42@lemmy.world
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        orbititting goth girlfriend

  • MeatPilot@lemmy.world
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    Damn 3 Baby elephants? That’s like 225 ducks!

  • nacho_taco@lemm.ee
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    Now nasa is doing ad placements?

  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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    As an American what I don’t get is if a foot is roughly 30cm and a kg is 2.2lbs how hard of a conversion is it really?

    • Eezyville@sh.itjust.works
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      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.

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    Crossposted to [email protected]

  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
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    Anything but the metric system

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