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"and then crushes it with a pressure equivalent to an adult Arabian horse standing on a quarter", what a bizarre comparison, this seems like an incomprehensible
by RUnconcerned 2y ago
"and then crushes it with a pressure equivalent to an adult Arabian horse standing on a quarter", what a bizarre comparison, this seems like an incomprehensible reference point for most people (myself included)
- guax 2y agoI have no clue what It means and I am an Arabian horse.
- entropygiggles 2y agoGo stand on a quarter, and it's about like that.
- tom_ 2y agoYou just need to find out how much an Arabian horse weighs, and divide the area of the thing they're standing on by 4, and the calculations are pretty straightforward.
- incompatible 2y agoI'll look it up. The horse weighs 360 to 450 kg, the quarter in this context is an American coin with diameter 24.26 mm .. I think it's pretty clear now.
- mf2hd 2y agoDepends on the heart girth apparently: https://thehorse.com/tools/adult-horse-weight-calculator/ https://thehorse.com/tools/adult-horse-weight-calculator/
- voidUpdate 2y agoSomewhere between 7.6 and 9.5 MPa (1100-1400 freedom pressures) if I've done my maths right
- suoduandao3 2y agoMaybe it's a function of my work, but that sounds like a lot of Pa.
- taneq 2y agoCross checking with units : A coin of diameter 25.4mm=0.0254m has an area of pi(0.0254m/2)^2=0.00016129m^2, and 9.81N/kg450kg/4=1103N, so that gives 1103N/(0.00016m^2)=6.819MPa. Sounds right, pascals are quite small. :)
- mirekrusin 2y agoThey could just say “average US person”.
- moomoo11 2y agoWithout us comfortable cars with good suspension wouldn’t exist. Be thankful.
- ajsnigrutin 2y agoAmericans will measure with anything but the metric system.... (reference: https://old.reddit.com/r/Metric/comments/cpbi2g/americans_will_measure_with_anything_but_the/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Metric/comments/cpbi2g/americans_wi... )
- henriquecm8 2y ago"a large boulder the size of a small boulder"
- xattt 2y ago> The mystical two-headed dog… born with only one head!
- knodi123 2y agoas the meme goes, "Americans will do anything to avoid the metric system!"
- PopAlongKid 2y ago>“Slowly but surely we kept inching up, and broke through.” What is the metric equivalent of this statement? (from TFA)
- throwup238 2y agoBetter imagery?
- CodeMage 2y agoIn this context, "inch" is a verb, not a noun. It represents slow movement, not a precise measurement. There are many words like that in English. To answer your question, "moving" would have been a perfectly acceptable substitute. You could also use "crawling", "creeping", "worming", or "wriggling".
- PopAlongKid 2y agoBut that doesn't answer my question, as it appears there is no metric equivalent. I'm just highlighting how ridiculous the GP comment is, to conclude that using an analogy of a horse and a 25-cent coin has anything to do with metric measurement.
- entropygiggles 2y agoClearly it would be "we kept 2.54-centimetering up".
- knodi123 2y ago> I'm just highlighting how ridiculous the GP comment is, The one that I specifically described as a meme comment? You're saying it's technically inaccurate? Thanks, criticism noted.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoUsing Einstein’s mass energy equivalence, that’s about 10 to the power of 16 BTUs standing on that quarter. If we had a machine to convert that horse into energy we could power Britain for about 20 years. (Britain uses a few quadrillion BTUs annually).
- fnordpiglet 2y agoThis is a human watermark to ensure readers an LLM didn’t author the article. There’s no reasonable prompt that could create this comparison without hallucinating the rest of the article.
- ahazred8ta 2y agoThe venerable 'Half A Giraffe' subreddit covers the frequent use of nonstandard journalistic measurement units -- https://old.reddit.com/r/HalfAGiraffe/ https://old.reddit.com/r/HalfAGiraffe/