Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

[bruce.desertrat]

What the heck was it made of?

Corgi's run about 26 pounds, baby elephants are ~200.

So that Corgi-sized meteor (they're 10-12 " at the shoulder, 22-26" long) weighed 800 pounds. Looking at the breed's stated measurements (10-12" at withers, 22-26" long, and guessing at the width being roughly ½ the height I'll estimate they occupy a rough volume of about 11"x23"x6" ~1518 ci.

This gives out meteor a density of about .53 pounds/ci, 239g/16.387 CC, or 14.6g/cc, significantly higher than iron (7.2g/cc) or lead (11.34), or mercury (13.6) and approaching gold (17.2).

That meteor might be valuable to find!

[Tonyg]

Asian or African elephant?

[Jon]

Found on the Math Lady Hazel twitter.

[hemmjo]

18,000 cows – enough to cover 26 football fields.

[Toolmaker51]

Oh, there's nothing to see here, no suspicious circumstances. Just another isolated mass destruction of food incident.
Anyone care for a plateful of crickets?

[Frank S]

Oh, there's nothing to see here, no suspicious circumstances. Just another isolated mass destruction of food incident.
Anyone care for a plateful of crickets?

Didn't someone make a condiment out of powdered crickets a few years back? I seem to remember Tucker Carlson doing a commentary on a burger made with them.

[mklotz]

There are 86400 seconds in 24 hours (one day). Divide that by 18000 cows and you get 4.8 sec per cow. Let's say it really takes 5 minutes (300 sec) to milk a cow. Then you need 300/4.8 = 63 milking "lines" working 24/7 to handle the flow.

I'm sure my figures are wildly optimistic but, regardless, that's an incredible operation.

BTW, I know nothing about dairy farming. Are dairy cows milked more than once a day?

[Toolmaker51]

It's gone way past mere condiments; now progressed into the main course.
Not the same as lobster becoming a favorite fare of the wealthy, not the same as butts (flatfish) becoming halibut, not the same as gluten free orange juice, . . .
However, not much different from artificial cheeses, vegan hamburgers, grain and fruit additives, or flavorless paste awaiting 'season to taste' bs.

Humans have a specific dental arrangement; not all pointed like carnivores, not all flat like herbivores, identical hardware to that of omnivores.
Mother Nature knew what she was doing. Even the oldest skeletons found prove it.

[Toolmaker51]

There are 86400 seconds in 24 hours (one day). Divide that by 18000 cows and you get 4.8 sec per cow. Let's say it really takes 5 minutes (300 sec) to milk a cow. Then you need 300/4.8 = 63 milking "lines" working 24/7 to handle the flow.

I'm sure my figures are wildly optimistic but, regardless, that's an incredible operation.

BTW, I know nothing about dairy farming. Are dairy cows milked more than once a day?

https://www.midwestdairy.com/farm-life/farm-life-faq/

Among other tidbits "Most dairy cows are milked two to three times per day. On average, a cow will produce six to seven gallons of milk each day."

There are certain things milked non-stop;

[Jon]

Nice find on twitter: https://twitter.com/WMCActionNews5/s...35043643707392 . A hog is measured in the everyday unit of a Mini Cooper.