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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 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

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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 month ago
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  • TomMasz
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    21•1 month ago

    Can’t believe I’m the first one to mention the “Orbititing”.

    • @[email protected]
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      20•1 month ago

      Right, it clearly should be “orbititting”

      • @[email protected]
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        10•1 month ago

        orbititting goth girlfriend

  • MeatPilot
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    12•1 month ago

    Damn 3 Baby elephants? That’s like 225 ducks!

  • @[email protected]
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    83•1 month ago

    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.

    • Sparky
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      20•1 month ago

      It’s probably some stupid way of describing it’s inertia

    • Bezier
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      53•1 month ago

      Nah, the drink is just american sized

      • threelonmusketeers
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        16•1 month ago
        It's "child-sized".

      • Lord Wiggle
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        4•1 month ago

        It contains 300kg of sugar, or for the Americans here, about 3 baby elephants of sugar.

      • @[email protected]
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        3•1 month ago

        best explanation so far.

    • @[email protected]
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      16•1 month ago

      Can confirm, am American and three baby elephants are way heavier than whatever communist unit a “kilo” is.

      • Lucy :3
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        8•1 month ago

        Kilopound, of course

        • @[email protected]
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          5•1 month ago

          Sounds like some made-up British nonsense to me, like the stone. Can you rephrase in slugs?

    • @[email protected]
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      30•1 month ago

      The article writer got things confused. The meteor is the size of Dr Hans Pepper, not the soft drink Dr Pepper.

    • @[email protected]
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      3•1 month ago

      IIRC elephants are born at 100 kg.

  • @[email protected]
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    8•1 month ago

    Now nasa is doing ad placements?

  • @[email protected]
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    29•1 month ago

    That is much larger than a can of Dr. Pepper. The photograph is so clear and it’s covered in fucking craters.

  • @[email protected]
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    6•1 month ago

    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?

    • @[email protected]
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      7•1 month ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1•1 month ago

    Anything but the metric system

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    1•1 month ago

    BREAKING NEWS

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    4•1 month ago

    Crossposted to [email protected]

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