• quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    Corgi sized? Ok, I can picture that, weighting like 4 baby elephants? WTF? how many washing machines are each elephant?

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Are you working on a corgi-shoppingCart-elephant measurement unit? How many baby elephants to the adult elephant?

          • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            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.

    • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    61·
    3 months ago

    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).

    • balsoft@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      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).