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Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement
by loloquwowndueo 3mo ago
Sorry 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- djtriptych 3mo agoWhite is so outdated.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