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@cm0002@lemmy.world to Funny@sh.itjust.works • 2 months 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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  • TomMasz
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    21•2 months ago

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

    • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      20•2 months ago

      Right, it clearly should be “orbititting”

      • @Apeman42@lemmy.world
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        10•2 months ago

        orbititting goth girlfriend

  • MeatPilot
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    12•2 months ago

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

  • @NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca
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    83•2 months 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•2 months ago

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

    • Bezier
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      53•2 months ago

      Nah, the drink is just american sized

      • threelonmusketeers
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        16•2 months ago
        It's "child-sized".

      • Lord Wiggle
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        4•2 months ago

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

      • @devfuuu@lemmy.world
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        3•2 months ago

        best explanation so far.

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      16•2 months 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•2 months ago

        Kilopound, of course

        • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          5•2 months ago

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

    • @IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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      30•2 months ago

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

    • @7uWqKj@lemmy.world
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      3•2 months ago

      IIRC elephants are born at 100 kg.

  • @nacho_taco@lemm.ee
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    8•2 months ago

    Now nasa is doing ad placements?

  • @daggermoon@lemmy.world
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    29•2 months ago

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

  • @RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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    6•2 months 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?

    • @Eezyville@sh.itjust.works
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      7•2 months 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.

  • @BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
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    1•1 month ago

    Anything but the metric system

  • @FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    1•2 months ago

    BREAKING NEWS

  • @squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4•2 months ago

    Crossposted to !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de

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