An army of fire ants the size of Rhode Island would be one...
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An army of fire ants the size of Rhode Island would be one...
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Could be used to help defend Ukraine, or Taiwan (when the time comes) or isn't it PC to mention such things.
Yeah but the problem with Fire ants is once you invite them in, they refuse to leave...
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
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How many Bison heads is that...
Baby Bison or adult Bison? :smash:
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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?
As soon as they started describing how many busses are in one Chinese spy balloon, I had to think of this thread. There was a better graphic that had the balloon in busses and the payload in cars, but that one's lost in the Interwebs.
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This asteroid, should it arrive on target, will abruptly end our climate change worries.
Maybe the Earth can capture an Ice comet someday and its orbit would gradually deteriorate. Maybe half of it would wind up on the moon the other half raise the sea levels by about 300 feet 75% of the population might have to learn to swim but those are the brakes.
Crazy, this happened last night. NASA confirms half-ton meteor crashed in South Texas . Is this close to you Frank?
Sorry, guess this happened Wed Feb 15, 2023
Rhode Island or Kansas miles?.
Another nice specimen in the extraterrestrial object measurement genre, from a few days ago: https://www.jpost.com/science/article-732223
Note the combination of a specific breed of dog, plus not just an elephant, but 4 baby elephants.
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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!
Asian or African elephant?
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?
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?
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.
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;
Nice find on twitter: https://twitter.com/WMCActionNews5/s...35043643707392 . A hog is measured in the everyday unit of a Mini Cooper.
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Mini Countryman? Clubman? Convertible?
All I know, too damn big for my double BBQ.
My 1969 Innocenti Mini roughly the size of a cord of wood, 4'x4'x8', 128 cubic feet...
A pig that got out is newsworthy to this journalist. It's a good thing that Twitter is there to let them tell the world about it.
Get a bucket and walk it back to the pen before it shadows another Mini Cooper.
Note how disparate the comparison is between a hog and a Mini Cooper. They could've just said: "A hog as big as a cow" or "A hog as big as a buffalo". Everyone can picture that. By contrast, here they do compare something to the size of an animal. But it's an asteroid, and it's over 100 times the size of that animal.
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What's equivalence between 112 camels (having never sat on a camel) to X amount of drywall installers on stilts, or perhaps scissor-lift testers?
There are approximately 43 dromedaries per football field. That should help with your calculation.
Ohhhhh.
That's clear;
"Camel belongs to Kingdom Animalia. The Phylum is Chordata.The Class of the camel is Mammalia. The Order is Artiodactyla. Camel belongs to the family Camelidae. The scientific name of camels is Camelus, as a even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus bearing distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. Camels have long been domesticated." Main difference between dromedaries and bactrian camels is in fact the number of humps.
I thought the scale was based on the label of a variety of products, includes dates, figs, coconut, fruit butters, and tapioca.
Is the field reference for American football, Spanish fútbol, or Gaelic football from Ireland?