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Corgi sized? Ok, I can picture that, weighting like 4 baby elephants? WTF? how many washing machines are each elephant?
Not “as heavy as” — it has the mass of four elephants
You’re absolutely right. But I still need to know how many averagely full shopping carts are each elephant
Are you working on a corgi-shoppingCart-elephant measurement unit? How many baby elephants to the adult elephant?
Not at all, I haven’t graduated in elephants yet. I know that a full shopping cart is about 5 or 6 corgis but when it comes to elephants not a clue.
How many bunnies would it translate to again? In Giant Flemishes of course
Could it have the mass of four baby elephants without being as heavy as them?
African or an Asian species of elephant?
Are you suggesting elephants migrate?!?
Borneo pigmy elephants.
And corgi Pembroke or corgi cardigan?
This is no time to worry about what the dogs are wearing.
Hey, if it makes science fun, maybe we will be less maligned in spite of MAGA.
lol no. That’s not how fascists think. Intelligence itself is what they hate. They hate anyone smarter than them, espwcially ones that don’t immediately reinforce their shitty world views. They’re petulant children who happened to become adults, jealous of a happy world because they’re incapable of it themselves.
They hate science because it proves there is an objective world out there that doesn’t and will never agree with them.
I think at some point it’s just the writers having fun with it. I also think that while letting me know something weighs 2.2 megagrams is giving me the exact amount, telling me it’s two volkswagen jettas worth of weight let’s me imagine what I’m dealing with in some other ways (not real numbers, but real experience having to jack up some jettas when working on them).
That sounds surprisingly dense; what was that thing made of?
It seems baby elephants weight 100-200 kg depending on the species, let’s say 150
Corgis are 50-70 cm in length, let’s say 60
If we assume that the meteoroid was a sphere with a diameter of 1 Corgi length, that would make the density
150 kg / (τ/3 * (60 cm / 2)^3) ≈ 2652 kg/m³
If we assume that the meteoroid was the same volume as a Corgi, it’s a bit more difficult to estimate. Corgis are kind of like a cylinder with 60 cm height and 20 cm diameter. That would put the density at
150 kg / (τ/2 * (20 cm / 2)^2 * 60 cm) ≈ 7958 kg/m³
Both are reasonable for a meteoroid; the first one would likely be an S-type asteroid (consists of silicates), the second an M-type (consists of metals).
Huh. Thanks. Turns out baby elephants weigh less and corgis are longer than I thought.
Maybe it’d’ve been better to use metric, after all.
Anything but metric.
Yes, that is where we are.
You don’t say.
They sure it’s not just their national guard getting off the bus?
