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[–] 1 point 24 minutes ago

Yesterday I searched for how much an acre is, only to find this: https://www.wagrown.com/what-does-an-acre-look-like

1,584 potatoes
The amount of potatoes needed to make a line from one end to the other end of an acre.

And Wikipedia made it sound even funnier to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre

It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, 1⁄640 of a square mile, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare.

Or with rods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit)

The 'perfect acre' is a rectangular area of 43,560 square feet, bounded by sides 660 feet (a furlong) long and 66 feet (a chain) wide (220 yards by 22 yards) or, equivalently, 40 rods by 4 rods. An acre is therefore 160 square rods or 10 square chains.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 hour ago

    Product placement getting the bills paid without being excessively obnoxious--rare.

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  • [–] 53 points 4 hours ago (11 children)

    lol a material that dense and that small would just blow up

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  • [–] 17 points 3 hours ago* (2 children)

    NASA originally published that it was around 1000 pounds and two feet across. Then Jpost sensationalized it. A ball of iron that size would be about 1800 pounds.

    https://www.jpost.com/science/article-732223

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  • [–] [S] 32 points 3 hours ago (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 20 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

    Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding. Could you express that in approximate number of cans of Dr. Pepper?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 hours ago

    I'm confused.

    Not from the mass or size.

    But from exactly what it is doing to Mars?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    heavy would imply weight wouldn't it? if they are all in orbit wouldn't 10,000 baby elephants weigh the same as 3, the same weight as a football field, or an Olympic sized swimming pool, and the same as a single can of Dr Pepper?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 hour ago*

    It could also imply mass which doesn't change regardless of gravity.

    Also being in orbit doesn't significantly reduce the amount of gravity impacting the object. The reason astronauts feel weightless is because bring in orbit means they are moving fast enough to keep missing the object they are orbiting. So it isn't a lack of gravity, it is constant free fall.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago*

    It's not "Meteor the size of a Dr Pepper" but "A meteor The size of Dr Pepper" as in the whole company.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago

    I use metric to hold papers down on my desk.

    If I have 10 papers, I add another metric.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    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".

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  • [–] 1 point 45 minutes ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago

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