Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

**IntheGroove** · Feb 4, 2023, 05:42 PM

An army of fire ants the size of Rhode Island would be one...

**bruce.desertrat** · Feb 4, 2023, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by Frank S

What I could do with an army of trained fire ants each the size of Rhoad Island

THEM!!

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**Bony** · Feb 4, 2023, 07:54 PM

Could be used to help defend Ukraine, or Taiwan (when the time comes) or isn't it PC to mention such things.

**Frank S** · Feb 4, 2023, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat

THEM!!

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One of my favorite movies when I was a kid

**bruce.desertrat** · Feb 5, 2023, 10:56 AM

Yeah but the problem with Fire ants is once you invite them in, they refuse to leave...

**Frank S** · Feb 5, 2023, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat

Yeah but the problem with Fire ants is once you invite them in, they refuse to leave...

Yoo don't even have to invite them, if there were red ants on your property at once time for the horned lizards to eat. pretty soon there will be no red ants and no Horney toads. Just 100's of mounds housing billions of the mean critters

**Jon** · Feb 19, 2023, 02:13 PM

Nice combination of precision and highly varying size. Also makes use of the media trope of impending doom from above, while fabricating a measurement unit that combines both the cause and victim of a prehistoric extinction event. Original article: https://www.jpost.com/science/article-714778

**IntheGroove** · Feb 19, 2023, 02:19 PM

How many Bison heads is that...

**hemmjo** · Feb 19, 2023, 02:35 PM

Baby Bison or adult Bison?

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**nova_robotics** · Feb 19, 2023, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by Jon

Nice combination of precision and highly varying size. Also makes use of the media trope of impending doom from above, while fabricating a measurement unit that combines both the cause and victim of a prehistoric extinction event. Original article: https://www.jpost.com/science/article-714778

Holy **** that article is bad. At first glance I incorrectly interpreted the headline as 2.3x the size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs (which I'm sure was the intention). Nope, it's 2.3x the size of "a dinosaur." A tiny little jumpy dinosaur or one of the big mofos? Meaningless. Could be anything. So apparently the asteroid is 51m in diameter. That's actually a decent sized chunk. Why didn't they just say that in the headline?