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> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold?? Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight.
by RajT88 3mo ago
> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar
Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold??
Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight. Just say "a modern passenger car".
- NetMageSCW 3mo agoIt’s more like half a modern passenger car these days.
- loloquwowndueo 3mo agoSorry I only understand football field based units of measurement
- fnordpiglet 3mo agoIt’s a real condition. For me it’s jet liners of various makes. I had to rewrite the quote as “0.005 Boeing 777’s” to be able to comprehend just how strong those snails teeth are.
- eth0up 3mo agoSorry, but that's what 14 (standard) pickup trucks of yak hair was invented for.
- djtriptych 3mo agook but what color is the yak hair?
- thenewwazoo 3mo agoSame color as the bike shed, obviously
- eth0up 3mo agoNot from Unitzikstan I see White, of course; that way the statisticians can dye them any color they want. But for ultra high precision I do recommend the Boeing system. But be sure to use the older models, before private equity firms replaced all the metal parts with zipties. If you can't find a quality Boeing (plausible), consider 1.1 Blue Whales (tricky). fnordpiglet was being deliberately humble with the decimals. It's accurate down to the semi firkin. Not to be confused with a quarter Tod. Ignore the redundant bike shed comment, as that fits precisely 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar. Anyone with a bike should know that.
- djtriptych 3mo agoWhite is so outdated. I wish we'd stop ignoring Councilman Blatt's proposal to triple-dye the yak hair Imperial Blue, to minimize the color variation and therefore the effects of mass loss due to black body radation. We are, after all, trying to be accurate here. Pickups of Imperial Blue Yak Hair (or PIBYHs) is the clear road to the future and it's dismaying to see any other response from a fellow Unitsman.
- bell-cot 3mo agoUnderstandable, with how many there are to pick from, and the wiggle room in the longest ones - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Association_Football_field_diagram_-en.svg/1280px-Association_Football_field_diagram_-en.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/As...
- kulahan 3mo agoOP is talking about a football field, not a soccer field. It’s a common joke in America that things have to be measured in football terms. In the “for what it’s worth” department, Brits called it soccer too. I have no idea why they swapped to football recently.
- Rooster61 3mo agoWait, I can do that? Here I've been using Smoots this whole time (with great difficulty might I add).
- isatty 3mo agoA football field is by far a better measurement than 3300 one pound bags of sugar.
- sph 3mo agoIt is not if all you know are football fields and not American football fields. I still don’t know how they even compare.
- bch 3mo agoThat's why we use the %fill of an Olympic Sized Pool - doesn't matter from what continent the field comes, they fill the pool equally.
- necovek 3mo agoAren't there significant differences in allowed depth (from minimum of 2m to maximum of 3m)?
- bch 3mo agoGood catch. We've run into a problem somewhere along this journey of comparing the compression strength of a snails tooth to the tensile strength of a spiders web.
- necovek 3mo agoSo a snail's tooth can only hold a 2m deep worth of Olympic pool (sea)water, but it breaks before you get to a 3m deep pool.
- throw1234567891 3mo agoOnly if you don’t understand that 3300 one pound bags of sugar is 3300 pounds. What an enlightening conversation here. Crème de la crème of modern thinkers.
- rz2k 3mo agoObviously it weighs 10,300 baseballs, which are 26 football fields long.
- nrdvana 3mo agoIt turns out an astroturf American football field probably weighs 1700 tons, mostly from the 6 inches of stone base under the astroturf. So 3300lbs is .00097 football fields.
- drdec 3mo agoApproximately ten defensive linemen
- nathanfries 3mo agoI noticed that too. I feel like this might be a new way of laundering AI written text, just provide the quote verbatim as if the they believe it was actually written by the author.
- tyre 3mo agoThis article is from 2015.
- DarmokJalad1701 3mo agoThe AI is so good that it traveled back to 2015 and published this paper.
- michaelmrose 3mo agoSkynet is real
- RobRivera 3mo agoHow many hogs to the bushel?
- mminer237 3mo agoA hogshead is 6.768 bushels in the US and 7.875 in the UK.
- tonymillion 3mo ago> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar Is that cooked or raw spaghetti?
- giwook 3mo agoIs it De Cecco though or some inferior brand like Barilla?
- kulahan 3mo agoBarilla is fine and I will fight you
- RajT88 3mo agoThe pasta is fine. The owner doesn't like gay people.
- kulahan 3mo agoOh, thought this was a noodle fight. A full-on slam down in flavor town. An absolute buffet brawl.
- JsonDemWitOster 3mo agoLol. Four-ish years ago I stopped cheaping out on house-brand pasta and bought Barilla. It was immediately a very obvious step-up in quality I can no longer keep cheaping out on. Then they made some very slopjob AI ads. Superick but I keep buying them. :|
- mannykannot 3mo agoWhy complicate matters with pasta at all when spider silk is, at least metaphorically and rhetorically, at hand? As hinted at by its 2017 postscript, this article is a mess of incommensurable comparisons.
- boogieknite 3mo agowhenever i see things like this i think its a tongue-in-cheek joke
- CGMthrowaway 3mo agoHow about > 10x stronger than the jaw of a dog > 20x stronger than a human jaw > as strong as the jaws of a great white shark ?
- moffkalast 3mo agoBut how many times can it bite the area of Rhode island?
- kulahan 3mo agoThose are crushing power, and while they use bad terms for it, they are referring to tensile strength specifically, which is totally different. I don’t know why the hell they chose a spaghetti strand though.
- functionmouse 3mo agobecause as a reader, bags of sugar are more engaging to me than bags of concrete.
- Terr_ 3mo agoYeah, I am quite certain I have an easier time visualizing a one-pound bag of sugar—which I have seen at the grocery-store/kitchen/pantry—versus a single-pound bag of concrete.
- riffic 3mo agoanything but the metric system.
- BLKNSLVR 3mo ago1,497 one-kilogram bags of sugar. Much better!
- BobaFloutist 3mo ago~1.5 Mg of sugar.
- natebc 3mo agoMegagrams?? I like it.
- rdtsc 3mo agoThe main question is how many American football fields is that
- akoboldfrying 3mo ago12 nautical bushels per Fahrenheit
- WorldPeas 3mo agomore importantly: how many kilos of feathers versus how many kilos of steel can it hold? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg
- kloop 3mo agowhistles 3.3 kilopounds? That's a lot
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- seany 3mo agoStaff Sgt. Sykes: [Sgt. Sykes is directing the recruits on how to judge distances] You take what you know, and then you multiply. Please don't use your dicks. They're too small, and I can't count that high. I don't wanna hear, "400,000 inches." -Jarhead https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418763/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418763/
- bdamm 3mo ago"A modern passenger car" varies widely depending on what locale the reader is in. A passenger car in Jakarta is not at all the same as a passenger car in Los Angeles. Can we just use Kilograms?
- alistairSH 3mo ago“NO!” - America
- Isamu 3mo agoNeeds to be 3,300 bags of something I care about. Otherwise you are talking about nonsense or voodoo.
- eYrKEC2 3mo agoThe crazy thing is that it is also equivalent to 33,000 0.1 pound bags of sugar.
- nvader 3mo agoI think we're still in the right ballpark bit we're headed for the exits. .1 lb sugar is 1.6 oz (net), and we'll need to wrap it in paper. I estimate about .5 of an ounce? So we're spending approximately 10% of the weight in packaging. Our nominal 33000 pounds of sugar just got 10% heavier. At least we haven't resorted to those little sugar packets, which would be colossally worse!
- throw1234567891 3mo agoYeah, a modern passenger car is such a good weight measure. So much more accurate than 3300 pounds. Are you for real?